Post by account_disabled on Dec 20, 2023 5:03:06 GMT -5
There was a first, then another, then another and it is now becoming quite regular. What am I talking about ? From hunters who contacted me on LinkedIn for positions without any connection with my recent experience or even with my background. Examples of messages received: “Hello, I see you are an SAP specialist”. In fact, no I am not a specialist, I supported my teams in the AS400/SAP transition in the early 2000s. “Following a search, your profile matches the keywords “key account” and is likely to match you.” Yes, why not… 20 years ago. “I would like to come to you, I would like to be able to take stock of your situation and present to you an opportunity as Purchasing Director for a superb E-Commerce structure”.
E-commerce, why not, but I'm on the other side: sales/marketing. At the first, I didn't Email Data react, but from the moment the experience was repeated, I tried to understand. So I asked them why they contacted me and if they had looked at my profile before doing so. The answers surprised me at the time, even if today I understand them better. The answers that were given to me? Because you came up in my searches. I use an automation tool. No, I haven't looked at your profile. So I understood that for a certain number of hunters (not all), the work on LinkedIn is as follows: Selection of the keywords sought, and not necessarily in a search by field (on LinkedIn, to be more efficient, you can carry out a search by profile field instead of taking the entire profile into account).
Automatic sending of messages or invitations to profiles that stand out, without taking the time to look at them. To be more precise, beyond this practice of sending a message to those whose profiles emerge during the query, studies indicate that: Recruiters search on average for more than 7 keywords. LinkedIn indicated a few months ago that a person who arrives on your profile spends on average less than 10 seconds there. Another study indicates that a recruiter spends an average of 6.2 seconds there. In summary, in a first sorting, we do not spend more time on a LinkedIn profile than on a CV. What surprised me about the messages received from recruiters who had not seen my profile was that they did not only come from independent recruitment consultants or “small” little-known firms.
E-commerce, why not, but I'm on the other side: sales/marketing. At the first, I didn't Email Data react, but from the moment the experience was repeated, I tried to understand. So I asked them why they contacted me and if they had looked at my profile before doing so. The answers surprised me at the time, even if today I understand them better. The answers that were given to me? Because you came up in my searches. I use an automation tool. No, I haven't looked at your profile. So I understood that for a certain number of hunters (not all), the work on LinkedIn is as follows: Selection of the keywords sought, and not necessarily in a search by field (on LinkedIn, to be more efficient, you can carry out a search by profile field instead of taking the entire profile into account).
Automatic sending of messages or invitations to profiles that stand out, without taking the time to look at them. To be more precise, beyond this practice of sending a message to those whose profiles emerge during the query, studies indicate that: Recruiters search on average for more than 7 keywords. LinkedIn indicated a few months ago that a person who arrives on your profile spends on average less than 10 seconds there. Another study indicates that a recruiter spends an average of 6.2 seconds there. In summary, in a first sorting, we do not spend more time on a LinkedIn profile than on a CV. What surprised me about the messages received from recruiters who had not seen my profile was that they did not only come from independent recruitment consultants or “small” little-known firms.