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I explicitly list on my LinkedIn that I'm not interested in "web3" but that doesn't stop the messages. This has me thinking of fun ways to waste a few minutes o

I explicitly list on my LinkedIn that I'm not interested in "web3" but that doesn't stop the messages. This has me thinking of fun ways to waste a few minutes of these recruiters' time in return for wasting a few (many?) minutes of mine...

Retr0id 4y ago
If you have "not interested in web3", then your profile comes up in keyword searches for web3.
- klntsky 4y ago
  "Not interested in СЯYPT0"
- bastawhiz 4y ago
  It would naively seem to me that reading profiles is literally the bare minimum to do the job. If a recruiter can't do more than scrape LinkedIn for keyword matches and send spam, I can't think of a good reason why I should respect their time.
  - sirspacey 4y ago
    Having built tech recruiters, this is 95% of their prospecting process
- nicbou 4y ago
  I had a long discussion about with a recruiter, since my title is "Not looking for work" and my bio a longer version of "don't contact me". I still get contacted here and there, and I'm very rude when it happens. It's apparently my fault if their scripts only see "looking for work" and contact me. If I didn't want to be contacted by recruiters, I shouldn't say that I'm not looking for work. He said that he couldn't know that I didn't want to be contacted because he doesn't have time to read profiles. That was his defence to "this is why people don't like recruiters". Every additional message made me hate recruiters more. Others have justified it as "maybe your very explicit request not to be contacted is outdated, and you want to be contacted". Nope. Still self-employed.
babyshake 4y ago
Web3 job offers on LinkedIn might literally be phishing scams. It's gotten a lot worse in the last year.
capableweb 4y ago
I also explicitly list that I'm only interested in jobs related to language X, but my work history is filled with jobs programming with language X but also Y, Z and a ton of other languages. Most of all the daily requests I get are for everything but language X. Out of the ~10 messages I get each week, maybe one is related to language X. Don't think what's happening to you is unique to "web3" but rather that people just skim read the profile on LinkedIn. They simply check if past experiences include whatever they are looking for.

Retr0id 4y ago

If you have "not interested in web3", then your profile comes up in keyword searches for web3.

klntsky 4y ago
"Not interested in СЯYPT0"
bastawhiz 4y ago
It would naively seem to me that reading profiles is literally the bare minimum to do the job. If a recruiter can't do more than scrape LinkedIn for keyword matches and send spam, I can't think of a good reason why I should respect their time.
- sirspacey 4y ago
  Having built tech recruiters, this is 95% of their prospecting process
nicbou 4y ago
I had a long discussion about with a recruiter, since my title is "Not looking for work" and my bio a longer version of "don't contact me". I still get contacted here and there, and I'm very rude when it happens. It's apparently my fault if their scripts only see "looking for work" and contact me. If I didn't want to be contacted by recruiters, I shouldn't say that I'm not looking for work. He said that he couldn't know that I didn't want to be contacted because he doesn't have time to read profiles. That was his defence to "this is why people don't like recruiters". Every additional message made me hate recruiters more. Others have justified it as "maybe your very explicit request not to be contacted is outdated, and you want to be contacted". Nope. Still self-employed.

babyshake 4y ago

Web3 job offers on LinkedIn might literally be phishing scams. It's gotten a lot worse in the last year.

capableweb 4y ago

I also explicitly list that I'm only interested in jobs related to language X, but my work history is filled with jobs programming with language X but also Y, Z and a ton of other languages. Most of all the daily requests I get are for everything but language X. Out of the ~10 messages I get each week, maybe one is related to language X. Don't think what's happening to you is unique to "web3" but rather that people just skim read the profile on LinkedIn. They simply check if past experiences include whatever they are looking for.