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Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
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Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#72LinkedIn yes, Indeed no. Almost all recruiters (internal and external) are active on LinkedIn. It definitely doesn't hurt to have a good profile... people will reach out to you . Recruiters get a lot of scorn, but I've had good experiences with them as long as you understand their incentives. They usually get some percentage of your starting salary, so let's say they make 15k if your offer is 100k (making up these nu…
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Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#73LinkedIn yes, Indeed no. Almost all recruiters (internal and external) are active on LinkedIn. It definitely doesn't hurt to have a good profile... people will reach out to you . Recruiters get a lot of scorn, but I've had good experiences with them as long as you understand their incentives. They usually get some percentage of your starting salary, so let's say they make 15k if your offer is 100k (making up these nu…
I would say they mostly suck. Very slimy, unwilling to divulge basic information and will ghost you in a heartbeat.
Add a code word or number to your profile like "If you are a recruiter and want to contact me about a position, please put this number in the email subject to confirm you saw this text and isn't a bot".
99% of the time a "recruiter" contacts me, it's a sweatshop spam recruiter who invariably says "Your profile looks interesting" and of course, has not seen the profile.
Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#74I think I've gotten exactly one worthwhile recruiter DM on LinkedIn in my life in terms of the actual role they were reaching out about, though I generally reply to them and will occasionally schedule a phone call and I could see those relationships being valuable at some point. I've gotten my last two jobs from HN hiring threads, and I also used Hired.com during my last job search and had pretty decent results.
Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say they mostly suck. Very slimy, unwilling to divulge basic information and will ghost you in a heartbeat.
From my experience there are 2 kinds of recruiters. Those most likely operating out of the same boiler rooms as tech support scammers who have pitch terrible roles and employ a spray & pray approach where it's just a spam campaign with very little effort on their side. Those are a waste of time, the roles are terrible and are pretty much never matched to your profile, and when you go through anyway the recruiter will…
Can you share a bit about how to find the second type of recruiter? I've gotten a sense of the dynamic you're describing but have no real idea of how to find good recruiters. As you say, pretty much all of the inbound messages I get are very spammy.
Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#76I've had a lot of success with Dice.com
Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#77LinkedIn yes, Indeed no. Almost all recruiters (internal and external) are active on LinkedIn. It definitely doesn't hurt to have a good profile... people will reach out to you . Recruiters get a lot of scorn, but I've had good experiences with them as long as you understand their incentives. They usually get some percentage of your starting salary, so let's say they make 15k if your offer is 100k (making up these nu…
I second this. I switched jobs a few months ago after a recruiter reached out to me based on a crappy LinkedIn profile that hadn't been updated in at least 6 years.
I get a fair amount of interest from recruiters and I don't consider it spam: they're doing their jobs and it might benefit me at some point. It's easy enough to decline someone's invitation if you don't want to connect with them.
Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#78LinkedIn is pretty good, however I really do hate the photos. The main reason we don't have photos on resumes in the West, is because it opens you up to discrimination. My physical appearance should have nothing to do with my hireabilty I also very much hate how people keep trying to turn it into Facebook. Stop it. Get your validation somewhere else. Now with that said, I've found almost all of my recent jobs via Lin…
I will play devil for lulz: >My physical appearance should have nothing to do with my hireabilty but actually why? you know - if you have two equally skilled people... and one of them has tattoos on 90% of his/her body and your company works for banking industry, then is it pros or con?
as a software developer? It shouldn't matter. People shouldn't be discriminated for something like tattoos. Especially when software related stuff isn't as customer-facing as an actual bank teller
Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#79I’ve found LinkedIn better those others have had better luck with Indeed, especially for junior roles.
With LinkedIn, the most effective strategy I’ve found is finding someone who is connected to the hiring manager of a posted open position, and crafting an intro note for them to send on my behalf. Just applying to jobs or waiting to be found hasn’t worked.
Re: Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?
#80LinkedIn yes, Indeed no. Almost all recruiters (internal and external) are active on LinkedIn. It definitely doesn't hurt to have a good profile... people will reach out to you . Recruiters get a lot of scorn, but I've had good experiences with them as long as you understand their incentives. They usually get some percentage of your starting salary, so let's say they make 15k if your offer is 100k (making up these nu…
I think recruiters are great, as long as they actually work at the company they are hiring for. My policy has always been to respond to their linkedin messages saying thanks for reaching out but i'm not interested right now. One of those ended up becoming my current job.
The outside recruiters, "I have a client in XYZ industry with 100M in funding!" type where they don't even tell you the name of the company, you should just ignore.