I have friends who receive 1 linkedin message per day with job openings. I am somewhere in the middle: I have several friends who are recruiters, including my sister. I am a Software Implementation Consultant and i started receiving more similar messages likes the below mentioned more often. 2-3/week, not the same frequency. And now I wonder that recruiters advise us to do when reading a message like this.
Please be concise and direct.<p>Real Salary first, no one is leaving a gig to lose 20K and work 20 more hours a week.<p>Job Requirements that make sense. There's less than 2,000 CS PhDs graduating in a given year. React, Angular, and Vue only reached most Devs in the last 4 years. Depth and Breadth are two different things. If you aren't Google, Tesla, or Microsoft don't pretend to be.<p>Juniors, mids, seniors, management, and architects are all in different places. Don't reach out to a senior with a junior role.<p>Try playing the long game for once: Get out to the meetups and learn the technology. Make friends by bringing value. Learn the culture.
I would like for recruiters to actually read and understand my LinkedIn profile. For the majority of the last decade, I've focused on scaling distributed systems as a backend developer. Nearing a decade ago, I did some PHP work.<p>I get tonnes of requests for senior or junior frontend positions from near-demanding emails, asking me to start jumping through hoops immediately for the privilege to be recruited by them. Or I get lots of PHP positions.<p>And they ignore where I live (worked out of the OC in SoCal for a long time, now fully remote in Montana). Some will even read my profile and ignore that. "Hey, I really like how you blah, blah, blah. Let's meet for coffee." Not everyone is in silicone valley.<p>The recruiters who actually look at my profile and offer relevant positions at least get a response from me usually, even if it is to say I still love where I work.
put the name of the company in the initial message you send. I suppose there are people that are curious and will respond, but to me it just looks like you're embarrassed to be recruiting for them.