LinkedIn and Recruiters

[ruasonid]

Some of the recruiters are just putting up fake roles on linkedin to harvest CV's, so not much difference to jobs boards.

I have been watching the market closely for several months. Every 2-3 months the same jobs come up. Called recruiters to ask why and they said they'd call me back...

[malvolio]

They do, but not very much.
But not insigificant if this is anything to go by. Assume the same amount for Monster, jobsite, etc.

https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/recruiter/pricelist.aspx

One typical 3monther at £400 a day at 15% earns them around £4k...

And I suspect they will negotiate a discount for repeat business.

[PermieToContractorAndBack]

I don't understand. Why wouldn't you connect with recruiters?

One problem is that if your privacy settings are not set then recruiters will be able to see your contacts and their details. They can then use you to contact them and potentially bombard your contacts with requests, etc.

But that takes 5 seconds to fix. I set 'who can see your connection list' to 'only me' about 4 years ago and it has stayed the same. I review my security and privacy settings once every 6 months and they have been stable, LinkedIn hasn't been changing them.

I don't get why people would restrict their presence or ability to connect on the biggest networking tool there is. I have internal recruiters connecting with me too, not just agencies. I had two calls from an agency I know from LinkedIn on Friday about two very good jobs.

You can publish your portfolio on LinkedIn, you can showcase your skills to a wide audience, it's a great tool.

[PermieToContractorAndBack]

Them bombarding your contacts isnt your problem. It is not like they'd say 'I got your details via andyg's contact list' is it?

TBH, when I was working and despite networking, I never found LinkedIn worked for me. I regularly made my contacts aware of jobs when they werent working. Id contact them and ask them to refer any jobs my way but got sweet FA off them. So, I jacked the whole thing off.

Sure some, many say Linked In works. I just think it is like a professional facebook jobbie.

Having the right network means that even if people in your connection list don't have a job for you there and then, their connections find you much easier and they might have one. It's something to grow and nurture. Your connections' circumstances change, they move to a different recruitment desk, leave their job, etc but others will find you.

LinkedIn needs very little nurturing, your profile needs to be updated and you need to work on your network a little by joining the right groups, see what others with similar skills are up to, what the market wants, etc.
You probably don't need to spend more than 2 hours a week on it, tops. It's not a 'professional facebook jobbie' but it needs to be understood.

[Manic]

I secured my current role through Linkedin. recruiter contacted me as normal channels weren't working for him (so he told me afterwards).

I also limit my contacts list and have recently purged anyone resident in India with the job description "UK Recruitment"