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I have the opposite experience. I don’t get any messages from recruiters after having set the appropriate preferences. And I use LinkedIn to connect to relevant

by f6v 4y ago

I have the opposite experience. I don’t get any messages from recruiters after having set the appropriate preferences. And I use LinkedIn to connect to relevant people in my field.

tedmiston 4y ago
Consider yourself lucky. I get hundreds per year. Maybe 1 in 50 are decently relevant. Many are mass spams. A good amount will be in tech I have no interest in, haven't worked in in over a decade, or have never worked in. It's clear the messages are sent without ever actually reading your profile or even job titles. I wish there were a way to control only the handcrafted / non-spam messages reaching my inbox.
- jjulius 4y ago
  The ones that really grind my gears are the ones that clearly guessed your current work email address based on your LI profile and standard business email username formats.
  - tedmiston 4y ago
    Oh for sure. I bet `<first name>@<small company>` or `<first.last>@<company>` goes a very long way. There are seem to be some techniques for verifying existence of an email address without actually emailing it. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/565504/how-to-check-if-an-email-address-exists-without-sending-an-email https://stackoverflow.com/questions/565504/how-to-check-if-a... I tried the below services with a custom G Suite domain and, to my surprise, they successfully worked, even for addresses that I know have never been posted publicly (!). https://email-checker.net/validate https://email-checker.net/validate https://clean.email/verifier/how-to-check-if-an-email-is-valid https://clean.email/verifier/how-to-check-if-an-email-is-val...
- reillyse 4y ago
  I have a PhD and so have Dr as my first name on LinkedIn. All the automated messages address me as if Dr was my actual first name, So “hi Dr” or “Dr,…” So it’s a good filter for all the machine created messages, which is a very very high percentage of them.
boredtofears 4y ago
Yeah, I really don't have that much of a problem with LinkedIn. It definitely seems like they do scammy things, but I don't really notice since I really only login to it when I'm looking for a job. When I set my preference from "not looking" to "actively looking" or even the "casually looking" option (forgot what it's called), the flood gates get opened wide. Then it's pretty much just like picking a job from a job tree because there's usually so many options from recruiters. Then I turn it off, and the emails pretty much shut down (once in a while one or two seems to trickle through somehow, which is annoying but not that bad). For my intent it kinda works the exact way I want it to, but I really only ever login when I'm looking for a job.
- sunsunsunsun 4y ago
  I wish I had this problem. I get maybe one or two messages from recruiters a month.
- kar5pt 4y ago
  Am I crazy or did they get rid of this setting? I remember they used to have a way to set your status to "not looking", but I've been looking recently and can't find it.
mostlyghostly 4y ago
My recruiter invites have been dropping at a exponential rate once I passed age 45. LinkedIn is apparently a fairly efficient platform for age discrimination.
- wyclif 4y ago
  One way to mitigate that somewhat is to never put your age online. I plan on being 39 for as long as possible.
  - t_mann 4y ago
    Your CV kinda gives it away though...
    - derekbaker783 4y ago
      Drop everything beyond N years...
      - wyclif 4y ago
        Yes. Most people's CV's who have been around for a while are too long anyway. The goal should be one page, with only the most recent/relevant experience.
        mostlyghostly 4y ago
        Empirically, I'm getting about the same results from my 1 page and my 2 page CV, based on call back rates, funnel progression, and interviewer comments. Go ahead and use two pages if the incremental content is relevant to your overall pitch. (In my case the extra material is relevant... I've run pricing at five companies, which is usually a massively cross-functional job. Unlike my typical competitor, I've also mastered most of the supporting technical, accounting, and commercial disciplines... which makes me a one stop shop for serious pricing problems.)
        4y ago

by f6v 4y ago

I have the opposite experience. I don’t get any messages from recruiters after having set the appropriate preferences. And I use LinkedIn to connect to relevant people in my field.

tedmiston 4y ago

Consider yourself lucky. I get hundreds per year. Maybe 1 in 50 are decently relevant. Many are mass spams. A good amount will be in tech I have no interest in, haven't worked in in over a decade, or have never worked in. It's clear the messages are sent without ever actually reading your profile or even job titles. I wish there were a way to control only the handcrafted / non-spam messages reaching my inbox.

jjulius 4y ago
The ones that really grind my gears are the ones that clearly guessed your current work email address based on your LI profile and standard business email username formats.
- tedmiston 4y ago
  Oh for sure. I bet `<first name>@<small company>` or `<first.last>@<company>` goes a very long way. There are seem to be some techniques for verifying existence of an email address without actually emailing it. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/565504/how-to-check-if-an-email-address-exists-without-sending-an-email https://stackoverflow.com/questions/565504/how-to-check-if-a... I tried the below services with a custom G Suite domain and, to my surprise, they successfully worked, even for addresses that I know have never been posted publicly (!). https://email-checker.net/validate https://email-checker.net/validate https://clean.email/verifier/how-to-check-if-an-email-is-valid https://clean.email/verifier/how-to-check-if-an-email-is-val...
reillyse 4y ago
I have a PhD and so have Dr as my first name on LinkedIn. All the automated messages address me as if Dr was my actual first name, So “hi Dr” or “Dr,…” So it’s a good filter for all the machine created messages, which is a very very high percentage of them.

boredtofears 4y ago

Yeah, I really don't have that much of a problem with LinkedIn. It definitely seems like they do scammy things, but I don't really notice since I really only login to it when I'm looking for a job. When I set my preference from "not looking" to "actively looking" or even the "casually looking" option (forgot what it's called), the flood gates get opened wide. Then it's pretty much just like picking a job from a job tree because there's usually so many options from recruiters. Then I turn it off, and the emails pretty much shut down (once in a while one or two seems to trickle through somehow, which is annoying but not that bad). For my intent it kinda works the exact way I want it to, but I really only ever login when I'm looking for a job.

sunsunsunsun 4y ago
I wish I had this problem. I get maybe one or two messages from recruiters a month.
kar5pt 4y ago
Am I crazy or did they get rid of this setting? I remember they used to have a way to set your status to "not looking", but I've been looking recently and can't find it.

mostlyghostly 4y ago

My recruiter invites have been dropping at a exponential rate once I passed age 45. LinkedIn is apparently a fairly efficient platform for age discrimination.

wyclif 4y ago
One way to mitigate that somewhat is to never put your age online. I plan on being 39 for as long as possible.
- t_mann 4y ago
  Your CV kinda gives it away though...
  - derekbaker783 4y ago
    Drop everything beyond N years...
    - wyclif 4y ago
      Yes. Most people's CV's who have been around for a while are too long anyway. The goal should be one page, with only the most recent/relevant experience.
      - mostlyghostly 4y ago
        Empirically, I'm getting about the same results from my 1 page and my 2 page CV, based on call back rates, funnel progression, and interviewer comments. Go ahead and use two pages if the incremental content is relevant to your overall pitch. (In my case the extra material is relevant... I've run pricing at five companies, which is usually a massively cross-functional job. Unlike my typical competitor, I've also mastered most of the supporting technical, accounting, and commercial disciplines... which makes me a one stop shop for serious pricing problems.)
        4y ago