It keeps happening and it is truly astoundingly annoying – and on their part amateurish. What am I talking about?
I’m talking about Recruitment agents who contact me via LinkedIn. It’s nice to get 2/3 LinkedIn emails (InMails they call ’em) per week asking about my availablity. Alas more than two thirds of them are simply wasting their own time in composing and sending me the e-mail. Why? Simply put if they had even bothered to take a cursory glance at the publically available portion of my Experience section they would quickly realise that I am not suitable and they shouldn’t even bother contacting me.
Yet still they do, and I’m pretty sure very very few of them actually look at my profile in any way shape or form until I reply and register interest back.
It seems a mass market e-mail is used to target individuals who have group sets of key words that match an open position, the e-mail is then personalised by LinkedIn’s Recruiter system from where such ‘mailshots’ can be sent. So it’s just the same old way as always – recruitment agencies randomly bombing people with e-mails/InMails in the hope that the needle in the {filtered} haystack responds.
We’ve got the technology make {use} of it!
Annoying!
Sometimes it’s because you may be connected to a hiring manager they’re trying to get a foot-in-the-door with (or be a hiring manager yourself perhaps). Other times it’s plain old doormat spam 🙂
If they want to burn {inMails} let them go for it.
https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/list/search/1/d/c/sort/active/topic/data+mining