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I also have found the recruiter email to have gotten a lot better recently. As an experiment (as my startup is hiring - I wanted to see what the candidate exper

by jlees 11y ago

I also have found the recruiter email to have gotten a lot better recently. As an experiment (as my startup is hiring - I wanted to see what the candidate experience might be like these days), I expanded my LinkedIn profile to trigger as many recruiter-friendly tickyboxes as possible, expecting a deluge of spam. I got about five messages, all fairly well crafted and personalised to some extent. Honestly, I get more spam to my email address than InMail these days. I also ran a fun experiment where I set up another LinkedIn profile nearly identical to my own, changing the name and gender and writing a very terse summary for each job. Boy, does he get a lot of random spam. I wonder if by writing a more detailed description of my skills/experience/contributions, I somehow generate better inbound messages... Speaking to the point about "what would you export", I definitely have contacts who I am only connected through via LinkedIn; a key example being former colleagues whose personal email addresses I never got, and whose work emails I barely remember. I think it depends on the kind of network you have built there, though. The more work you've put into your LinkedIn connection pool, the more you want to export it.

notahacker 11y ago
> I also ran a fun experiment where I set up another LinkedIn profile nearly identical to my own, changing the name and gender...Boy, does he get a lot of random spam. Alternate hypothesis: bad recruiters looking for software developers filter by gender... To be honest, I've had two emails from recruiters in three years, both highly targeted to specific terms in my profile, and I nearly accepted one of the jobs. Skipping those horrible spam-magnet keywords altogether is a good start.
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ryandrake 11y ago
Title might act as a filter as well. I cycled among "Senior Software Engineer," "Product Manager," and "Engineering Project Manager", and got most of the spammy shotgun recruiters when I called myself a Senior Software Engineer. It would be an interesting experiment to create lots of identical profiles with single variables changed to see how they each perform, but that's likely against LinkedIn's terms of service. They should add the ability to A/B test tweaks like this and let you optimize your profile for whatever level of recruiter interest you'd like.

by jlees 11y ago

notahacker 11y ago

> I also ran a fun experiment where I set up another LinkedIn profile nearly identical to my own, changing the name and gender...Boy, does he get a lot of random spam. Alternate hypothesis: bad recruiters looking for software developers filter by gender... To be honest, I've had two emails from recruiters in three years, both highly targeted to specific terms in my profile, and I nearly accepted one of the jobs. Skipping those horrible spam-magnet keywords altogether is a good start.

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ryandrake 11y ago

Title might act as a filter as well. I cycled among "Senior Software Engineer," "Product Manager," and "Engineering Project Manager", and got most of the spammy shotgun recruiters when I called myself a Senior Software Engineer. It would be an interesting experiment to create lots of identical profiles with single variables changed to see how they each perform, but that's likely against LinkedIn's terms of service. They should add the ability to A/B test tweaks like this and let you optimize your profile for whatever level of recruiter interest you'd like.