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by foobazzy
970 days ago
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I worked for Tapchief about 4 years ago and we had an army of recruiters just scouring through LinkedIn and Upwork who look for interesting profiles and try to convert them to this platform. What I learnt there was that there exists a market for chrome extensions that will help you send template messages and even blanket responses to all and every person in a certain search criteria. You can scrape the pages from search results and even extract contact details like email etc, if present in your profile. Before chatGPT, the quality of these messages were abysmal. But they've gotten better recently. I think Amazon hires smart enough engineers to build bots that can authenticate on your behalf and do this for you. Your job as a recruiter then becomes to only filter through the responses. I would also like to take this opportunity and blame LinkedIn search for giving absurd results. Because this whole process is dependent on finding profiles on their platform. |
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The other issue is stale resumes, at least in my experience. I've been in the industry for over a decade, and been in big-name tech companies for nine years. My profile makes it clear that I'm a senior engineer.
But I got an e-mail from a recruiter recently about a desktop support position. Turns out, they have a resume from about a year after I made the move from small business sysadmin to AWS support engineer (these days, my resume includes things like "senior SRE" and "devops engineer at a quantitative hedge fund"). They didn't really bother to verify whether their copy of my resume was at all recent.