Have you ever actually got a job that you accepted through this method? Also, what wizardry did you use to get 200+ recruiter E-mails a month? Do you just have a highly optimized resume out there on all the job sites or something?
Yes, I've gotten my last 3 non-consulting jobs through this method. Before I switched to FT consulting, pretty much all of my jobs were through recruiters. The 'wizardry' is basically having a well put together resume (I've had several people/orgs/etc take a look at it over the years and give me optimization tips), and I maintain profiles at dice, monster, and indeed. That's... about it. I avoid LinkedIn like the plague because I detest the company and its practices, but I'm sure folks who are less picky than me could do something similar on LI and EASILY get more than 200+ contacts a month.
1) I'm impressed by your technique, and I intend to copy it.
2) The numbers in that autoresponder caused my jaw to hit the floor. I thought I was well compensated but apparently there is a lot of room for me to grow!
AND work on IT. As an housing architect I received zero offers from recruiters despite having relevant experience. By the other hand I have been contacted several times by IT recruiters once I listed there (irrelevant) IT side projects.
Incredible--would you mind sending me your LI profile (privately of course, email in my HN profile)? I'd love to see an example of a profile that generates that much interest, even if it's mostly low signal.
I think location is very important with these sorts of profiles. I'm on linked-in, Indeed and career builder.
I normally get nearly zero recruiter emails, but late last year I changed my location preferences on Indeed and/or Career builder (I don't remember) from my hometown to Washington DC and suddenly I was deluged with the 20+ recruiter emails per month; more right after I update something on my profile.
Strangely, 1/2 of the emails are for locations far away from DC. I might try changing my preferences to San Jose and see how many more I get.
My "profile" is pretty much just my resume. Experience seems to be another important factor.
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.
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.
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.
