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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by yareally on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:08PM (#13701078)
Maybe I am mistaken, but I thought that much recruiter interest on linked in is pretty typical. I live in the Mid Western United States and what was previously mentioned is also true here from my observations. Most of it comes down to having the right keywords and tags I believe. Having .net/java/mobile in your profile nets a lot of messages where I am. Words like Scala/Python/Node/Ruby/etc gets you a bit more.

80% of it is for jobs within the surrounding city, 10% for within the state and 10% out of state. That said, most of these jobs you could also find without the recruiters as well, but sometimes ones from internal recruiters (and if you're lucky a developer/dev manager) are useful.

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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by ryandrake on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:13PM (#13701989)
Interesting. I suppose if I were to ever get 20+ recruiter contacts per month I would retract my previous comment about replying to each of them being cheap time-wise.

Admittedly, I'm not in the market for a developer position, and I deliberately down-play my development experience in my profile, which probably reduces my contact count substantially. I should conduct an experiment wherein I stuff my resume and LinkedIn profile with programming languages and framework keywords for a month and record whether it has an effect on recruitment volume. I suspect it would.

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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by yareally on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:27PM (#13702072)
Another interesting bit I've noticed is coworkers getting some of the same recruiter spam from the same recruiter. Seems some of them just blast everyone working for a particular company and hope to get a reply.
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