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I sincerely hope it isn't misused by recruiters. I'm already inundated with messages that omit crucial details like company name, compensation range, and job de
by cebert 3y ago
I sincerely hope it isn't misused by recruiters. I'm already inundated with messages that omit crucial details like company name, compensation range, and job description. If you can’t give me some basic information, don’t bother messaging me.
- peter_d_sherman 3y agoHi cebert, Would you kindly define what you mean by "misused" ? ? Doesn't LinkedIn require that users accept someone else's connection request BEFORE they are permitted to send a message to them? ? Wouldn't you have had to previously accept the connection requests of various recruiters -- BEFORE they could message you on LinkedIn? ? Your concern, if I am understanding it correctly, is that you hope that recruiters on LinkedIn, recruiters who are permitted to message you, recruiters whose invitations to connect you have previously accepted -- your concern is that those recruiters could potentially "misuse" this messaging API (Couldn't any API theoretically be "misused" (a subjective term) by any party at any time for any purpose?) by sending you recruitment messages without specific details about a company they're recruiting for? ? Why wouldn't you simply ask them for more details if you were open to work, or politely ask them to stop messaging you if you weren't? Or revoke the connection outright? ? So... would you kindly define what you mean by "misused" ? ?
- cebert 3y agoI believe recruiters can pay to send “InMail” messages even if you aren’t already a connection. This seems to be the source of a lot of my recruiter spam. Or connect requests with a recruiting message.
- peter_d_sherman 3y agoOK, I'll grant you that... LinkedIn could potentially use a better spam filter for those cases...