Hacker News Reader

My current job cold contacted me via LinkedIn. I use LI minimally, basically only to establish connections with my network, and it already gave me huge value back.

View on HN

Are your skills particularly unique / unusual resume?

I could imagine that working.

For most people though I expect they're just one of many and odds of spam / scam contacts greatly outweigh legit communication.

My skills are alright, nothing too crazy. I've had messages that were more spammy/scammy, but the volume was not crazy high, they were usually fairly obvious, and I resolved by simply ignoring them. I would say that the random chance of getting an interesting job offer, however small, is probably worth it for most professionals.

However, one thing I haven't mentioned is that I am based in Europe. My small sample size of people reaching out to me is showing that US contacts are usually less serious (e.g. ghosting). Maybe the US experience is so much worse overall due to this?

I suspect you may be onto something. I'm a run of the mill dev. At least in the past when I was last looking for a job and more active on linkedin, the volume of contacts did not represent legitimate interest, not at all.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com