Voted "Once a month", but its more like 8 - 10 year for me. Most are through LinkedIn, but occasionally I get something from a large outfit that has a horribly

Voted "Once a month", but its more like 8 - 10 year for me. Most are through LinkedIn, but occasionally I get something from a large outfit that has a horribly out-of-date version of my resume still in their database.[1] The LinkedIn contacts are generally pretty good, though I continue to have people misunderstand what "systems engineer" means in my resume.[2] When I was publishing my resume on job sites, which I haven't done in a couple years, I was getting tons of contacts, but 90%+ were spammy recruiters who obviously just read and misunderstood a couple keywords. I assume my lack of contacts is a function of my location (Dallas) and variegated EE/SysE/SE career path. Its kinda frustrating, though, to come on sites like this and hear about how hard it is to find good developers when it seems like anyone who isn't already in one of the primary or secondary hotspots doesn't exist. Amazon is the only company that consistently reaches out to me, and they finally pitched something that isn't site reliability/security. [1] Its really funny when I get power engineering pitches because they have a version that is from my pure-EE days. [2] See here: http://www.incose.org/ http://www.incose.org/