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I was curious if a nonsense LinkedIn account would get job offers. It does!
- wyldfire 8y agoNote to self: ask LinkedIn to give us metrics about how many solicitations we receive as a ratio over the null account (Sea Bream will suffice as a null account).
- pickle-wizard 8y agoI've got a picture of my cat, that looks like a professional headshot. I've been thinking about making her a linked in profile. I never thought about using it to troll recruiters though. I thinking more along the lines to she how many people would accept the connection invite.
- ksaj 8y agoThere is a huge difference between head hunter solicitations and a job offer. Hilarious thread either way.
- kstenerud 8y agoPeople do unsolicited job offers on LinkedIn? Or is that part of the joke?
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoDo you not have a LinkedIn account? I've only got about 5 years experience and live nowhere near the centre of the tech hub, but I'll get at least a couple a week. For people near the centre/with lots of buzzwords it must be crazy.
- koube 8y agoI have never recieved an unsolicited job offer from linkedin. There is a world of difference between a recruiter message and a job offer.
- newen 8y agoYeah, a lot of people here confusing job offers and recruiter messages.
- commandlinefan 8y agoYou know what he means.
- koube 8y agoAnd you know what I mean. Saying you get tons of job offers off of linkedin is wildly misleading, even if people can guess at what you actually mean. If I did this in real life people would give me a strange look and then immediately clarify.
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- fhbdukfrh 8y agoWhen a recruiter sends you unsolicited job postings it's not a job offer, it's advertising for the supply side of their business. This response is not surprising.
- ctime 8y agoI’ve been employed by a clearly fake company name for years (wont mention it here, but its clearly to deflect recruiters and a bit of an experiment). I’ve had a number of “colleagues” approach me and try to add me to their network. Seems highly unlikely these would be real people or people with some kind of genuinely innocent intent.
- muckrakerz 8y agoThese aren't offers. These are letters of inquiry. They tend to be automated and based on key words. So you have key words that generated interest.
- Paraesthetic 8y agoI have personally set up a linkedin account (of basically me in 20 years), I use it to look up people when I dont want to know I am looking them up. I have personally had about 30 invitations to speak at conferences, job offers or people asking for career advice. I find it hilarious everytime, and often consider seeing how far I could go with accepting to speak at a conference, and the demands I could make.