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Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?

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Re: Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?

#11

Are you actively looking? For example, jobs on LI? What about Indeed or similar? LI could be seeing a lack of activity and interpreting that you're working. For example, I browse LI jobs and occassionally apply. Eventually, I get recommendations from LI Learning that are job search oriented. Yes, the market is different. But if you don't look active the algorithm isn't going to waste time with you either.

It’s possible, I did put things on pause around late December figuring it was better just to wait for the new year, but have only recently started to actively apply to things again. I suppose this may be it if I see things improve in the coming weeks.

LinkedIn has been enhancing their recruiter search.

Have you made your profile meet the LinkedIn guidelines.

Job title in headline. Tagline. Summary. List of technologies you have worked with. Have you filled your experience because the search can drill down further now.

Do you have your certificates listed. Those are also filterable with other add-ons.

Re: Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?

#12
Mid December is when I started to see my LinkedIn feed full of recruiters being laid off and looking for jobs, and an uptick in being pestered by recruiters about positions I have open. The job market has cooled a bit. It's not very bad, but it's not the crazy hot market of the past few years.

Re: Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?

#13

[deleted] If you're not already, start contributing to some open source projects (particularly of the high impact or popular variety). That way it doesn't look like you've forgotten everything. Who knows, you may also get a job offer through that work -- I've worked at places that have offered jobs to contributors who work on the open source code we had. It was rare, so don't exactly expect it, but you never know whe…

This is just plain untrue and unhelpful.

edit: parent removed part of their comment I was replying to

Re: Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?

#17

I've been doing this stuff professionally for 40 years. Never used a recruiter once. On either side of the trade.

I suppose it's good to know that one can successfully obtain employment without the use of a recruiter, but how is this responsive to OP's question?

Re: Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?

#18
post #9

You can reach back out to the recruiters who previously messaged you ask ask what their openings look like now. Apply to jobs, let your contacts know you are looking. Even if the market is slow, there are always openings.

That's assuming the recruiters haven't also been laid off - most of my big-tech recruiter contacts lost their jobs well before their engineering coworkers did.

Re: Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?

#19
Been "looking" since November. I'm still averaging 1 recruiter message every few days on LinkedIn, but 95% of them are from agencies with vague pitches for contract roles I'm not interested in. The daily messages I used to get from recruiters hiring directly for permanent positions at medium-to-large US tech companies dried up sometime last year. I'm applying directly to open roles on those companies' websites instead, and usually hearing nothing back.

Re: Ask HN: Recruiters have stopped contacting me? What could have happened?

#20
I haven't been looking but the volume of inquiry has dropped off a cliff. As others have said, recruiters are being let go and I think the other element is companies are not in hiring mode.

The important thing here is: its not you.

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