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

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Post by _puk »

"2) Weird internal ranking system."

I thought this was a given?

I realised years ago that if I visit LinkedIn I appear in more searches and seem to get more connection requests.

I've gone through periods of not using LinkedIn, and I get nothing, then I log back in, flick through my feed and within a day I've usually got at least one new connection request from a 2nd degree connection..

LI does seem to reward engagement, so I'd suggest you start engaging and see if it helps (though as per all the other responses, there's also a few good reasons that it's quiet at the moment).

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

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Post by nytesky »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #29
sircastor wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> dead cat bounce I’m not following the analogy here. What is a dead cat bounce - does it describe the stock curve?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp "if you throw it out the top floor window, even a dead cat would bounce". I shouldn't use the phrase though, as I'm actually very fond of cats. I think it's an example of society's bias against cats. If it were called "dead dog bounce" it would likely be taboo

Cats always land on their feet, they say. I think this idiom is the correlation to the bounce — you think the car has landed like it ALWAYS does, but in fact it’s a dead cat and was a bounce not a sticked landing.

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

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Post by exolymph »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #22

The tech bubble is bursting, did you miss the memo? Even after the recent dead cat bounce, FAANG stocks are down 30%+ with their revenue growth collapsing and they are laying off workers, and it's a whole lot worse for all the non-profitable zombie companies that have been surviving solely on ZIRP and Quantitative Easing absurdly loose financial conditions that have come to an abrupt halt. Naive investors in the tech…

"Bursting" feels like an overstatement. It's a correction, sure, but tech is still an insanely valuable sector.

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

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Post by JohnFen »

kazinator wrote: post #30

Yeah, it's like seventh time is the charm; this time the Amazon goons might finally have meant it when they said "this will be our final attempt to contact you".

Maybe things are different now, but last year, it took me six months of telling them I wasn't interested before they finally stopped bothering me.

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

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Post by xwowsersx »

Clubber wrote: post #26
xwowsersx wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not the person you're replying to but I would guess since the OP is concerned about not getting contacted by recruiters, I would assume he is looking for work and can't find it via the recruiter route. The alternative is talk to people you've worked with before and ask them if they are hiring at their company. If you did good work with them and there is indeed an opening, that's another avenue to find work. I also ha…

For sure

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

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Post by sircastor »

kazinator wrote: post #35
pyrrhotech wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp "if you throw it out the top floor window, even a dead cat would bounce". I shouldn't use the phrase though, as I'm actually very fond of cats. I think it's an example of society's bias against cats. If it were called "dead dog bounce" it would likely be taboo

Oh well; you can't teach an old cat new tricks. It would make a cat's breakfast out of the old metaphors. Let sleeping cats lie. It's a cat's life. Say, this bloated browser runs like an absolute cat. Those catgone web devs, you know? Oh, about last night's date: she looked nothing like her profile picture. Total cat! "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cats."

> "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cats."

The trouble here is that the sentence no longer fulfills its cat-given goal of representing every English alphabet letter.

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

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Post by codegeek »

You are out of a job and waiting for recruiters to contact you ? Most recruiters are out of a job right now so keep that in mind. Why not get more proactive and start applying to companies/teams that you would like to work for.

Plenty of companies hire remote and even if they don't have an open role being advertised, this is your opportunity to reach out to hiring managers and start a conversation. If you want to be selective, you also need to be more proactive especially if you are out of a job.

The market right now is a bit cooler as you can see the layoffs happening but if you are good at what you do, you can always find a role. You just may have to look more yourself since the easy days of waiting for recruiters to approach you is over at least for now.

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

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Post by notjonheyman »

djkivi wrote: post #32

I've noticed that making a small edit to my LinkedIn seems to activate recruiters looking at my profile and sending me messages.

Yes, this is a little trick I learned last year. It can be something as simple as deleting a letter from word and adding it back. This basically puts you at top of results for recruiters.
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