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I think the frustration doesn't come from recruiters per se, but rather the shotgun-approach recruiters. I've received many recruiter contacts where the positi

I think the frustration doesn't come from recruiters per se, but rather the shotgun-approach recruiters. I've received many recruiter contacts where the position being pitched does seem to logically connect with the experience and skills on my CV. And then you receive recruiter contacts where it's obvious they're just machine-gunning in the dark, where the jobs being pitched have zero relation to your skills and experience. There's also some pretty bad recruiter behavior where, if you reply to the initial contact, you've automatically signed up for a massive increase in the volume of communications they send you. I've even had one recruitment firm sign me up for their goddamn company mailing list just for replying to their initial contact. There's plenty to dislike about tech recruiting. Targeted, sensible contacts are really just the tip of the ice berg.

tomkarlo 13y ago
It also doesn't seem like they've made any effort to combat this kind of blind spamming. I can't rate the quality of a blind inbound from someone I don't know (which is almost certainly from one of their paying customers.) And I can't see how others have rated that individual's communications in the past. So there's really little incentive for recruiters to be more judicious, and that's going to hurt LinkedIn eventually. (But obviously, those are also it's paying customers and most of us are just bait to attract them.) We expect quality ratings when interacting on Ebay... shouldn't we get them on LinkedIn, which is just another type of peer-to-peer marketplace? They've created something similar with endorsements (for job seekers) but is there anything similar in terms of recruiters?