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And 99% of the messages about jobs on LinkedIn are trash, from people, who didn't even bother reading your profile or are unable to understand what they are rea
by zelphirkalt 5y ago
And 99% of the messages about jobs on LinkedIn are trash, from people, who didn't even bother reading your profile or are unable to understand what they are reading. Recruiters can decide, whether they want to disappear in heaps of trash requests, or use a better non-abusive platform, if such exists. I have not gotten trash copy&paste requests on StackOverflow yet, so at least it has that going for it.
- tfehring 5y agoI haven't had a great signal-to-noise ratio from recruiter DMs on LinkedIn myself. But I think the more general point is that the "candidate sees job posting on job board and submits an application" hiring pathway is mostly dead. LinkedIn recruiting is probably the main channel that's replaced it, but college recruiting events, referrals, and poaching former colleagues are big ones too. The referral pathway in particular seems to have exploded lately, Blind and similar sites are full of people (successfully) requesting referrals to top tech companies from anonymous strangers.