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I don't hate it, I just don't care about it. I'm in a field where I get jobs by what I've done, not how many work-friends I have on a website. I wish I didn't h

by burnte 2y ago

I don't hate it, I just don't care about it. I'm in a field where I get jobs by what I've done, not how many work-friends I have on a website. I wish I didn't have to play the LI game but for some reason business execs think that connections number means something, so I have to play the game a little. > A few days later my inbox will be flooded with recruiters spamming me with random useless stuff. Like this or that great Java opportunity (I haven't worked with Java in 15 years) Ditto, except I'm not even a programmer and never have been but I still get a flood of Java programming offers. I actually get so many I have "java developer" as a filtered phrase in my email. I get 50+ a month, every month, for a decade now. And really that's what most people get on LI, oodles of connection or sales spam, and irrelevant communications from people casting nets rather than actually being good recruiters and finding good people. That's why most people "hate" it, it's junk mail we actually have to interact with sometimes. I spend maybe 2 minutes a month there, and wish I didn't have to at all.

ungreased0675 2y ago
I get one or two recruiter messages a year, and I’m in the market for a job. Posts mentioning how many contacts they make me wonder what’s wrong with my profile.
Quothling 2y ago
I don't know but I'm guessing recruiters have access to some sort of algorithm on who's a likely target based on what skills / projects you have listed on your LI. The recruiter spam I get is much more on target after I "cleaned up" at least. The reason I get so many Java offers is because my area is very Java/C# rich, and since I may one day want to work with Java/C# again I've kept them on my LI profile, at least it's relatively easy to filter out. The actual "job" site of LinkedIn is terrible for me though. It's probably because I worked in the public sector and was involved with medical software, but LI seems to think I'm a doctor, a nurse and a firefighter (for whatever reason) at the same time.

by burnte 2y ago

ungreased0675 2y ago

I get one or two recruiter messages a year, and I’m in the market for a job. Posts mentioning how many contacts they make me wonder what’s wrong with my profile.

Quothling 2y ago

I don't know but I'm guessing recruiters have access to some sort of algorithm on who's a likely target based on what skills / projects you have listed on your LI. The recruiter spam I get is much more on target after I "cleaned up" at least. The reason I get so many Java offers is because my area is very Java/C# rich, and since I may one day want to work with Java/C# again I've kept them on my LI profile, at least it's relatively easy to filter out. The actual "job" site of LinkedIn is terrible for me though. It's probably because I worked in the public sector and was involved with medical software, but LI seems to think I'm a doctor, a nurse and a firefighter (for whatever reason) at the same time.