[fhd2]

The reaching out might work, I know some people actually appreciate it. I personally don't, it feels like an attempt to circumvent the system, and the system is in place for a reason: It attempts to make the insane volume of candidate messages manageable. It's not perfect, I wish more people would work on better systems rather than ways to circumvent them.

There is one notable exception to this, a guy I actually ended up hiring: The job ad link I posted stopped working after a few days, and he wrote a nice message to the company (!) email address telling us about that, and saying he's interested if the role is still open. That's proactiveness I really appreciate. It's very different from random people reaching out on my personal LinkedIn account or email, which I simply ignore.

I'd _love_ it if there wasn't so much noise, then I would probably think about it differently. But the volume does burn you out, and any attempts at circumventing systems put in place to try and manage this is not helpful.

And that's for manually written messages. Automating that - Jesus.