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Social media hashtags exist for people to follow. By finding out the current trendy hashtags that recruiters themselves use/follow, your post pops up on their
by comprev 6y ago
Social media hashtags exist for people to follow. By finding out the current trendy hashtags that recruiters themselves use/follow, your post pops up on their feed.
- jcims 6y agoDo you ever talk to your peers about this? I get grossed out by this kind of behavior generally because it seems so artificial and narcissistic. Hearing your perspective is interesting because it at least adds the nuance of gamesmanship to the list. Have you ever tried declaring yourself a thought leader? What kind of mileage does that get you?
- generalk 6y agoI've begun doing recruitment in a professional capacity recently, after having been the type of dev that dismissed this kind of social media, LinkedIn hashtag feed nonsense for the same reasons you do. And I still don't love it, but I have to admit it's got a place in the strategy. Posting a job req with some focused hashtags seems to help get more responses. Posting a few industry-appropriate articles does seem to help keep our company in folks' minds. In an ideal world every company I work for will be so amazing and so well known that I don't have to sell it to folks because the right folks are coming straight to us. Or that all of my friends and all of their friends will magically be capable of switching jobs to come build a new team with me whenever I need to grow. But reality doesn't work like that, and so things like LinkedIn end up being table stakes. It isn't the whole of my recruitment strategy, but certainly it's a functional part.
- rch 6y ago> thought leader It's a negative signal. Go build something instead.
- alkonaut 6y agoThere are recruiters who spend their days following tags like “#iot” or “#blockchain” or “#machinelearning” and think that the people who posted them are good targets for recruitment? Dear god...
- Grimm1 6y agoSelf promotion is a skill directly translated into $$$ in terms of raw compensation. It's one of the biggest blocks I see from developers who are otherwise qualified for positions like that but they don't know how to advocate for themselves. There is a games element to hiring and you have to put aside the thoughts of it being gross because at the end of the day it's a major component in earning more which for most people is one of the reasons they work. I say this as a dev myself and not a recruiter.
- alkonaut 6y agoYes but even if I did write the most fantastic article there is no amount of money that would make me use hash tags or promote myself on LinkedIn...
- NikolaNovak 6y agoThat is a personal decision. It may or may not be a rational decision, but depends on short and long term goals, and one's self-awareness and self-honesty. It becomes very quickly a real-life game of "would you do X for Y money? ". Saying "I wouldn't use a linked in hashtag for $10k/year (25k a year? 100k a year?) " is a pretty strong principle.