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You know the scene in the 2014 Godzilla movie where the Japanese Godzilla expert says "Let them fight..."? That's pretty much my reaction to recruiters and HR
by walrus01 4y ago
You know the scene in the 2014 Godzilla movie where the Japanese Godzilla expert says "Let them fight..."?
That's pretty much my reaction to recruiters and HR wasting time on linkedin bots.
- ramraj07 4y agoUntil it becomes standard practice to require verified LinkedIn work history.
- walrus01 4y agoWhat's when I move to a yurt in the forest
- jeffrallen 4y agoPlease verify your yurt. Click on the real yurt from the following 6 pictures...
- 6stringmerc 4y agoHello I’m from the high speed train project and we’re going to eminent domain your yurt. Get packing!
- mellavora 4y agonot until you click on the right "does this picture contain a high-speed train" image
- z9znz 4y agoThat will never happen. LinkedIn has long since peaked. Since it became cluttered with odd influencer types posting largely meaningless fluff, and more and more recruiters who make no effort to read candidate pages before spamming, its value has continually declined each year.
- majormajor 4y agoLinkedIn may have a higher effort:reward ratio than it used to, but is there something else that has higher utility to someone looking to get noticed for a new job?
- tpxl 4y agoSince we're here, post to a "Who's looking to get hired" thread. I got a good lead with that the last time I tried. Other than that, ask around and create a relationship with a good recruiter or two.
- krageon 4y ago
- Bayart 4y agoMy country has one or two job posting sites that have much better signal-to-noise ratios and are heavily watched by recruiters. It's in fact much faster than LinkedIn to get going for both sides. Internationally I'd rather check HN's job threads and the likes.
- rajamaka 4y agoSubmitting resumes have always worked for me.
- _visgean 4y agoi found hired.com and y combinator jobs to be a bit more meaningful these days. Othre than that I have tried indeed.com but it seems its mostly bait and switch in london..
- hansvm 4y agoThe attention I got through LinkedIn wasn't really worth it. They'd notify me of a shiny new job, I'd notify them of a hard $$$$ salary floor, and they'd laugh their way out of the conversation. Other channels like CodeFights, Triplebyte, and Google's foobar were a lot lower effort and a lot more fun for substantially greater dividends, and now waiting for former co-workers to recruit me is about as far as the search goes.
- rkho 4y agoAll the greater motivation for people to grind for independence from the rat race.
- sam1r 4y ago>> Until it becomes standard practice to require verified LinkedIn work history. Unless LinkedIn truly believes they are the new standard practice of work history.
- robin_reala 4y agoIn my entire career I’ve never had a LinkedIn account, I’ve never had LinkedIn brought up in an interview, and I’ve never looked at an interviewee’s LinkedIn account. It’s nowhere near as important as the industry seems to think.
- shapefrog 4y agoI feel the same way about bots wasting recruiters and HR's time as recruiters and HR feel about wasting my time.
- belter 4y agoI always though LinkedIn had pivoted years ago, into a Dating Site. Are they still doing recruiting? :-)