Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by potatolicious on Monday December 03, 2012 @03:26PM
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I really dislike "mystery meat employer" recruiter contacts. Just like charities, if I can't research it myself I'm not even a tiny bit interested.
I wonder why this is, is it to prevent the employer and potential employee cutting out the middle man? I can say with great confidence that I have never responded to any email/LinkedIn contact where the company name is not mentioned.
Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by floppydisk on Monday December 03, 2012 @03:32PM
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I had one nebulous recruiter call my company's front desk and try to get me consider taking a position with his talent pool after I ignored his message on LinkedIn.
To my limited understanding, the way the recruiting market works is recruiters build up a bank of talent they can submit for client jobs and they get a % commission of the meat err recruit's base salary as compensation. Ergo, the incentive is to build as big a stable of developers as possible that you can keep submitting for jobs. I personally ignore all the meat market recruiters on LinkedIn, it just gets absurd after a while.
Re:LinkedIn Users Can Now Call Each Other for Free
by scott_to_s on Monday December 03, 2012 @03:48PM
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Word. That reminds me, I need delete my LinkedIn account - spammy as hell, and wilfully obstructive when it comes to offering levers to opt out of stuff.
Update: Done!
Oh, I have to install an app to my phone for this to work. Phew, still safe! Just more cross-service account linking, nothing to see here, move along.