This old blog [0] post about recruiters and LinkedIn is fascinating as:
- recruiters used to claim they had "proprietary algorithms" for finding candidates
- it really boils down to them just spamming LinkedIn
- the mechanism the author used to determine the above was via "honeypot" profile
Also, I've been VERY active on Twitter and have written many thread (indexed here [1]) and have written extensively about SRE/technology etc. In the grand scheme of things I've gotten 4 jobs from recruiters reaching out on LinkedIn and only 1 from Twitter threads. The funniest part was that the job offer was downstream of a thread about Satellite TV piracy [2]
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- recruiters used to claim they had "proprietary algorithms" for finding candidates
- it really boils down to them just spamming LinkedIn
- the mechanism the author used to determine the above was via "honeypot" profile
Also, I've been VERY active on Twitter and have written many thread (indexed here [1]) and have written extensively about SRE/technology etc. In the grand scheme of things I've gotten 4 jobs from recruiters reaching out on LinkedIn and only 1 from Twitter threads. The funniest part was that the job offer was downstream of a thread about Satellite TV piracy [2]
0 - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120709210034/http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20120709210034/http://www.ewherr...
1 - <a href="https://alexpotato.com/threads/?hn=1" rel="nofollow">https://alexpotato.com/threads/?hn=1
2 - <a href="https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1270423060097708035" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1270423060097708035