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I have been contacted because a recruiter had seen my profile on Linkedin, because I was in the list of subscribers to a Meetup group (not attendant, merely sub

by Wilya 13y ago

I have been contacted because a recruiter had seen my profile on Linkedin, because I was in the list of subscribers to a Meetup group (not attendant, merely subscriber), because of classes I took in college (about 3 years after the fact), because of my github profile, because of my (very minimalistic and completely outdated) homepage, and through one or two other channels I'm probably forgetting right now. And I'm neither in the US, nor particularly known for anything. So, either you're really stealthy, either I'd like to know your secret.

StavrosK 13y ago
http://www.korokithakis.net/ http://www.korokithakis.net/ https://github.com/skorokithakis/ https://github.com/skorokithakis/ http://gr.linkedin.com/in/skorokithakis http://gr.linkedin.com/in/skorokithakis I'm just as puzzled as you are. Not that I'm looking for work, it's just one of those "why am I being left out?" things.
- djcapelis 13y ago
  I've stopped trying to understand recruiters. Looking at those links, I am also surprised you haven't gotten an e-mail in three years. The only thing I can think of is that you're listed on LinkedIn as being in Greece and I'm in the US near Silicon Valley, which might explain the difference?
  - StavrosK 13y ago
    Maybe! I'll have to ask my Greek friends if they get emails, although I think the deluge started for one of them when he updated his LinkedIn profile city to San Francisco.
- DavidWoof 13y ago
  From a glance at your linkedin page (recruiters don't know about github), there's a couple of things that I think are helping you stay recruiter-free. The first is that a cursory glance would imply that you're in Greece, which has less of a recruiter problem (even though I think you're really in Cornwall). And the second is that you're missing the Java/c#/SOAP/Agile set of buzzwords that corporate recruiters are scanning for.
  - StavrosK 13y ago
    Yeah, it might probably be a bit of both. I've never been to Cornwall, that's just where my company is registered. I'm currently in Spain. It's lovely.

by Wilya 13y ago

StavrosK 13y ago

http://www.korokithakis.net/ http://www.korokithakis.net/ https://github.com/skorokithakis/ https://github.com/skorokithakis/ http://gr.linkedin.com/in/skorokithakis http://gr.linkedin.com/in/skorokithakis I'm just as puzzled as you are. Not that I'm looking for work, it's just one of those "why am I being left out?" things.

djcapelis 13y ago
I've stopped trying to understand recruiters. Looking at those links, I am also surprised you haven't gotten an e-mail in three years. The only thing I can think of is that you're listed on LinkedIn as being in Greece and I'm in the US near Silicon Valley, which might explain the difference?
- StavrosK 13y ago
  Maybe! I'll have to ask my Greek friends if they get emails, although I think the deluge started for one of them when he updated his LinkedIn profile city to San Francisco.
DavidWoof 13y ago
From a glance at your linkedin page (recruiters don't know about github), there's a couple of things that I think are helping you stay recruiter-free. The first is that a cursory glance would imply that you're in Greece, which has less of a recruiter problem (even though I think you're really in Cornwall). And the second is that you're missing the Java/c#/SOAP/Agile set of buzzwords that corporate recruiters are scanning for.
- StavrosK 13y ago
  Yeah, it might probably be a bit of both. I've never been to Cornwall, that's just where my company is registered. I'm currently in Spain. It's lovely.