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You can basically port your resume to it and do nothing else and it can get you the occasional lead on a job. 3/4 of my last jobs were from LinkedIn recruiter o
by whateveracct 4y ago
You can basically port your resume to it and do nothing else and it can get you the occasional lead on a job. 3/4 of my last jobs were from LinkedIn recruiter outreach. One of the recruiter I told I wasn't ready, and then months later I pinged them and got right into the interview process and eventually got a new job.
- musha68k 4y agoI never let anyone else do the company vetting for me, not even for preselection. I also want to have the leverage of negotiating with my future employer / stakeholder directly, recruiter cut including. So from my POV and with all the spam that comes with it, a LinkedIn is not only useless but a major nuisance.
- whateveracct 4y agoEvery recruiter who I connected with via LinkedIn was a salaried employee of the company fwiw. Going around them wouldn't have given me more leverage.
- musha68k 4y agoMaybe that changed over the years, I only remember professional recruiters. But even so, this still mostly amounts to noise as to me the majority of companies are just not interesting to work for at all. I usually target 3 to 5 (max) interesting companies / openings which I thoroughly research on beforehand myself. That approach has never failed me so far, keeps me interested and motivated to go through interviewing plus an upper hand during negotiations. YMMV of course, that's just the approach that has consistently worked for me.
- whateveracct 4y agoOh yeah there's definitely a lot of noise. I have a niche that is very SEO'd on LinkedIn (Haskell), so that helps. I do just ignore people inquiring about generic software jobs though. But every so often a Haskell company finds me and then I keep in touch.
- noloblo 4y agoplease email me for haskell help if you do not mind