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Companies don’t pay recruiters to send spam. Recruiters get paid for successfully finding a candidate and getting them hired for a job. Recruiters play a numbe

Companies don’t pay recruiters to send spam. Recruiters get paid for successfully finding a candidate and getting them hired for a job. Recruiters play a numbers game. The more potential candidates they have in their database the better their chances of filing a job. People looking for jobs themselves often play a similar numbers game, applying to hundreds of jobs, and many online job boards play the same game, listing as many jobs as they can find (or scrape) and building an audience of job seekers. We don’t all know that “recruitment is broken.” If you only see recruiters as a source of unwanted emails you might get that impression. But recruiters only need to place one person in the jobs they have to fill to succeed. Emails cost next to nothing. In fact recruiters can do very well if they provide value to companies who use them to recruit.

kirso 4y ago
Perhaps I didn't mention all the reasons so its not just a matter of spam but: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20845802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20845802 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11580938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11580938 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25298983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25298983 Funny that you posted a similar reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23123686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23123686 I agree that not everyone will find the process frustrating. My humble personal experience and at least 90% professionals around me says otherwise though.
- gregjor 4y ago
  You have illustrated that “hiring is broken” and “recruitment is broken” threads get posted on HN fairly often. A small sample from a small and possibly unrepresentative subset of job seekers. I don’t question that maintaining a profile on LinkedIn or similar sites will lead to a lot of unsolicited recruiter email. I don’t have a LinkedIn account anymore, so that fixes the problem for me. I explained why that happens, I didn’t say it doesn’t happen. The recruiting and hiring processes we see in the tech industry may not give the best results for anyone, and may have unwanted side-effects like spam. I tend to agree, which is why I have made similar comments before, and why I have advised not playing the numbers game to find a job. In my experience good recruiters exist. You have to cultivate an actual relationship with competent recruiters, not just put a CV on LinkedIn and expect every recruiter to care about you and your preferences.

kirso 4y ago

Perhaps I didn't mention all the reasons so its not just a matter of spam but: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20845802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20845802 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11580938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11580938 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25298983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25298983 Funny that you posted a similar reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23123686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23123686 I agree that not everyone will find the process frustrating. My humble personal experience and at least 90% professionals around me says otherwise though.

gregjor 4y ago
You have illustrated that “hiring is broken” and “recruitment is broken” threads get posted on HN fairly often. A small sample from a small and possibly unrepresentative subset of job seekers. I don’t question that maintaining a profile on LinkedIn or similar sites will lead to a lot of unsolicited recruiter email. I don’t have a LinkedIn account anymore, so that fixes the problem for me. I explained why that happens, I didn’t say it doesn’t happen. The recruiting and hiring processes we see in the tech industry may not give the best results for anyone, and may have unwanted side-effects like spam. I tend to agree, which is why I have made similar comments before, and why I have advised not playing the numbers game to find a job. In my experience good recruiters exist. You have to cultivate an actual relationship with competent recruiters, not just put a CV on LinkedIn and expect every recruiter to care about you and your preferences.