How to filter out companies you don’t want to work for on LinkedIn?
I recently was told to remove languages on my LinkedIn to avoid lowballing third-party recruiters are even internal recruiters from contacting me to apply for jobs at their respective companies. At least the pay is higher now than low level jobs, but they are not in my tech stack -- I do everything but Java and Android, and I’m highly specialized in iOS development and AI/ML for a good number of years.
What should I do? it looks like some recruiters just don’t read your profile well enough, but will direct message you. Or maybe I’m just not explicit enough. People will just send you a bunch of crap anyway it’s just a lot of noise to filter and I’ve had friends from MIT told me that they actively choose not to use Linkedin because it ends up being just a spam box for everything. Thoughts?
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9 days agoAI/ML Eng @ Series C startupYeah inbound is inbound. On the flip side, I've had dozens of founders reach out and ask if I wanted to interview with them.
Generally, if the recruiter is from the company, that's a free interview. Otherwise, the inbound doesn't really count. Recruiters are basically salespeople for companies and most of them just don't do basic checks like tech stack.
Good content can get you really good inbound, you just need to invest the time to do so. Given how everyone's busy with their day jobs, the bar for content is not that high. It's about being consistent and writing meaningful stuff (which I too only do on a sporadic basis haha)
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https://www.jointaro.com/lesson/tmSAAWJjLcLWqeGWOl4t/case-study-how-i-get-500000-linkedin-post-views-per-week/ - 38 days agoTech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
Here's a reframe: inbound messages are a privilege you earn for becoming more important in your field. As you become more senior, or if you end up having purchasing authority at your company, or you become a semi-successful founder, I promise you'll get a lot more recruiting + sales messages :)
Yes, it can be annoying to deal with unsolicited people, but you can simply ignore messages that aren't interesting.
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9 days agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course HeroInbound is inbound. I think you should mute/block them and move on. It's annoying yes, but it's really hard to prevent the derps from reaching out to you without shutting off the funnel altogether.
LinkedIn is an unfortunate evil, because it's just so big and has a near monopoly on the job searching space. Due to its size, it's bound to have a lot of derpy people. I remember back when I was at Meta, I had recruiters reaching out to me asking if I wanted to make $100k - $150k working at Meta as a contractor. The sheer stupidity of these recruiters was absolutely mind-boggling (literally would have taken them just 10 seconds to realize it was a dumb idea), but that's just how LinkedIn is.
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9 days agoSenior Software Engineer [OP]Taro CommunityWow that sucks that you got DMs while you were at Meta liked that. Makes me feel not as bad then, because this stuff is so annoying and shows the level of intelligence for recruiters reaching out...
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