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That was my first thought - isn't that why I get two or three recruiter offers a day on LinkedIn?

chrisseaton 5y ago
> isn't that why I get two or three recruiter offers a day on LinkedIn? Do people really get this? I get two or three a year. Here's something I tell people - I was hired a couple of years ago from a completely cold LinkedIn message. Nobody else was sending me them so it really caught my attention that someone would be so interested in what I was doing! Lots of people assume everyone's getting courted by recruiters - I think there's probably a very very long tail of decent people who aren't and are only simple a reach-out to away.
- zoover2020 5y ago
  Yes. As an almost medior at FAANG I get 2-3 a day on average
  - chrisseaton 5y ago
    > medior Cool word.
- futureproofd 5y ago
  Maybe your profile needs some updating. The market is HOT right now.
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- tudelo 5y ago
  Linkedin has a setting somewhere to set your profile to "actively looking", have you tried that? I have done it previously and it always seems to result in a lot more recruiters reaching out.
  - chrisseaton 5y ago
    (I'll just make it clear I'm not looking, before anyone takes the opportunity to now message me.)
- crooked-v 5y ago
  I'm currently averaging about four recruiter emails a week, weighted towards Mondays. That's with nothing set to 'looking' and with nothing updated on my resume after my last round of job hunting. That number is also excluding the obvious mass-email mailing list ones that I delete immediately.
  - chrisseaton 5y ago
    Wow I've never seen someone in that much demand!
    - crooked-v 5y ago
      To be fair, enough of them have similar-enough wording that, despite coming directly from companies, I suspect there's some kind of common data scraping and/or recruiting pipeline I may have fallen into. Either that or I just accidentally did really good at the keyword game at some point.

> isn't that why I get two or three recruiter offers a day on LinkedIn? Do people really get this? I get two or three a year. Here's something I tell people - I was hired a couple of years ago from a completely cold LinkedIn message. Nobody else was sending me them so it really caught my attention that someone would be so interested in what I was doing! Lots of people assume everyone's getting courted by recruiters - I think there's probably a very very long tail of decent people who aren't and are only simple a reach-out to away.

zoover2020 5y ago
Yes. As an almost medior at FAANG I get 2-3 a day on average
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  > medior Cool word.
futureproofd 5y ago
Maybe your profile needs some updating. The market is HOT right now.
- deleted 5y ago
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tudelo 5y ago
Linkedin has a setting somewhere to set your profile to "actively looking", have you tried that? I have done it previously and it always seems to result in a lot more recruiters reaching out.
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  (I'll just make it clear I'm not looking, before anyone takes the opportunity to now message me.)
crooked-v 5y ago
I'm currently averaging about four recruiter emails a week, weighted towards Mondays. That's with nothing set to 'looking' and with nothing updated on my resume after my last round of job hunting. That number is also excluding the obvious mass-email mailing list ones that I delete immediately.
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  Wow I've never seen someone in that much demand!
  - crooked-v 5y ago
    To be fair, enough of them have similar-enough wording that, despite coming directly from companies, I suspect there's some kind of common data scraping and/or recruiting pipeline I may have fallen into. Either that or I just accidentally did really good at the keyword game at some point.