[Gllug] VACANCY: Linux Systems Administrator / PHP Developer

[Vidar Hokstad]

Peter Corlett wrote:
> IME, they don't even bother to read the CV that's in front of them, much
> less bother searching Google or LinkedIn, at least if the flood of recruiter
> spam I receive is any guide
It varies a lot... I've blacklisted a bunch of agencies that keeps 
spamming me with everything and anything they have, and that haven't 
stopped despite insults, threats  etc..

But I also get a lot of people contacting me on the basis of my LinkedIn 
profile who has clearly gone to it after having looked at my CV (there 
are details in the CV's I've used that are not on LinkedIn, so I can 
often tell who have "just" found me on LinkedIn). This category tends to 
be far better targeted. I still get an occasional message from people 
who know I'm not interested in the role but hope I might know someone, 
but they're generally in the form of an apologetic and personal message 
and they seem to have looked at my network to see if I'm likely to know 
the right type of people. Some of them have even clearly read my blog.

I think it largely depends on the level of the position and/or how long 
they've tried in vain to find someone. Most of the recruiter spam I get 
seems to be for low level positions that the bottom feeders amongst the 
agencies can probably fill pretty quickly and cheaply that way, and so 
they never bother moving on to actually do any decent work for it.

Vidar

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Vidar Hokstad
Technical Director, Aardvark Media Ltd
http://www.linkedin.com/in/vhokstad


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