LinkedIn and Recruiters

[mattfx]

To be honest I've found it to be really useful. I've gone on to several recruiters specialist lists and the ones that have then gone on to contact me more than once are all the ones I've connected with. I definitely think it works.

Although you're right - my feed is now full of sales guff.

[PermieToContractorAndBack]

For those that don't use LinkedIn and/or those that ignore connect requests from recruiters, one thing that I have found is that as long as you set your privacy options so that only you can view your details, connecting with recruiters is a valuable source of new opportunities. Why? Because recruiters will generally 'like' posts from other recruiters in their network who are advertising new roles. Those likes appear on your LinkedIn front page which you are able to respond to. There are three new roles today that are not currently showing on the jobboards!
The privacy setting means that only you can see your contacts so recruiters can't connect and harvest.

I don't understand. Why wouldn't you connect with recruiters? One of the main functions of the site is that it's another recruitment/job search tool, obviously in a different way from more traditional job boards.

Why would you intentionally restrict that? I don't get it.

[PermieToContractorAndBack]

To be honest I've found it to be really useful. I've gone on to several recruiters specialist lists and the ones that have then gone on to contact me more than once are all the ones I've connected with. I definitely think it works.

Although you're right - my feed is now full of sales guff.

I find LinkedIn very useful, I've got a ton of info from it as I tend to connect with people who have a similar career path/interest and it requires me to keep up with development.
I have also found contract and permanent roles through it too.
You can control your feed by unfollowing people whose posts you don't like.

[andyg]

I don't understand. Why wouldn't you connect with recruiters? One of the main functions of the site is that it's another recruitment/job search tool, obviously in a different way from more traditional job boards.

Why would you intentionally restrict that? I don't get it.

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.

[cojak]

I only have those recruiters I’ve worked with in the past.

I’m not in the market for a new job and am not interested in being in someone’s butterfly collection.

[washed up contractor]

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.

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.

[andyg]

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.

Them bombarding your contacts isnt your problem.

True but then if the LinkedIn privacy settings are set correctly then there is no chance that they can. The point is, the recruiters/agencies do post job opportunities and 'like' other recruiters/agencies that are doing the same. Therefore, you see all of these in your feed and can reply to any that suit your skill-set (they tend to post a contact email address). I've noticed an increase in these types of posts so wonder if it is cheap way of advertising roles rather than via the job boards (Monster/JobServe/etc) - my assumption being that the agencies have to pay the jobboards to advertise roles.

It is not like they'd say 'I got your details via andyg's contact list' is it?
But it wouldn't be andyg. The agency/recruiter would see my real name. Therefore, an example would be "Hello CEO of Daimler Transport, I received your details from [my real name]. He suggested we should connect as I can send you lots of CV's". I then receive an email from said CEO asking why I'm giving his details out.

[malvolio]

Them bombarding your contacts isnt your problem.

True but then if the LinkedIn privacy settings are set correctly then there is no chance that they can. The point is, the recruiters/agencies do post job opportunities and 'like' other recruiters/agencies that are doing the same. Therefore, you see all of these in your feed and can reply to any that suit your skill-set (they tend to post a contact email address). I've noticed an increase in these types of posts so wonder if it is cheap way of advertising roles rather than via the job boards (Monster/JobServe/etc) - my assumption being that the agencies have to pay the jobboards to advertise roles.

They do, but not very much. they also have meta-tools that do the posting for them; one mickey job description and a couple of other details and hit the button, a job is posted to all the usual suspect boards...

I don't care what any agency (much less individual agent) says, it's all about the money.

[andyg]

They do, but not very much. they also have meta-tools that do the posting for them; one mickey job description and a couple of other details and hit the button, a job is posted to all the usual suspect boards...

I don't care what any agency (much less individual agent) says, it's all about the money.

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

[billybiro]

They do, but not very much. they also have meta-tools that do the posting for them; one mickey job description and a couple of other details and hit the button, a job is posted to all the usual suspect boards...

I don't care what any agency (much less individual agent) says, it's all about the money.

Don't feed the beast - The Great Recruitment Agency infestation