It Must Be Nice to Get Too Many Recruiter Emails on LinkedIn
Today, Etsy design lead Cap Watkins announced in a blog post that he was leaving LinkedIn because, among other reasons, the site was overrun with recruiters sending unsolicited job posts.
Today, Etsy design lead Cap Watkins announced in a blog post that he was leaving LinkedIn because, among other reasons, the site was overrun with recruiters sending unsolicited job posts.
Sadly, he did not provide a screenshot of the emails he received about “exciting system operations positions (because I have familiarity working around coding languages) or sending obvious form mail designer inquiries.”
Those of us outside the technology industry will have to imagine an open position that was so hard to fill that recruiters would have to send out emails en masse.
Personally, I would be less surprised to find a connection request from a unicorn sitting in my inbox than a mass email sent on behalf of a company that was desperate to hire more writers or editors.
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