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About to head to the HC for a role in ProdOps and Strategy in Mountain View. 4 YoE at MBB, no competing offers. Recruiter gave me a form that asks expected comp.
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What total comp would you expect for this role? Any advice would be super helpful, as I’m a bit lost.
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Unless this is a flex :D, have a nice professional response typed up that you can copy paste. I typically thank them and invite them to stay connected for relevant future roles (unless they message about a very unsuitable role)
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LinkedIn Recruiter which is what most of us use, the main thing is we use a “credit” to send an InMail, if you respond back within 90 days of getting the message, we get the InMail credit back. So yeah, we do message a lot of people and we won’t take no response offensively, most recruiters have a 30/40% response rate so we definitely don’t get replies to all the messages. I had someone reply to me after a year 🤷🏻♀️
Sounds like some recruiters I've worked with! 🙃
I was ignoring them all. Then I started to get curious what my market value was. So I just started throwing out numbers that I thought were obnoxious and they kept not blinking at them. Now I’m interviewing with about 6 companies that are all saying my ask is well within their range but it’s 50-60k more per year than I’m making now.
What range were you seeing out there?
I just ignore them
I just do the one click response to legitimate outreach. I ignore the ones that are totally off base. But something to keep in mind is that they are likely sending that message to tons of people, so they aren’t taking it personally that you didn’t respond
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Depends on how I’m feeling. If a recruiter reaches out today, I’m taking their call.
The only recruiter that actually got back to me when they told me they would retired. I have found so many ‘used car salesman” (no offense) who only care about who answers the call for what they are pushing that minute and have no relationships outside of that. Recruitment is a dying art. Just today our team was asked to search out a candidate for a region because we do t like to use recruiters.
There's still a few Picasso's out there ;)
Depends on the message and how I’m feeling. If it’s totally off base I just block them, if it’s a random firm I’ll never be interested in I respond and politely say no thanks. Make sure your settings are set right for open to work, if you have it to no I promise you it’ll cut back on 99% of outreach
Oh wow! I would love to get offers everyday! Just be honest and polite if you are not interested, copy paste a nice thank you but no.
Don’t feel bad about clicking the not interested button. They usually appreciate that I affirmatively declined rather than leaving them hanging.
I only respond if they’re profile looks good OR if i have open to recruiters on. When you have open to recruiters turned on and don’t reply i think it hurts your chances of being seen.
When you respond to all of them you quickly learn who to ignore (Mason Frank for example for Salesforce admins, devs etc) and can spot good opportunities faster
If the message grabs your attention in a good way, whether interested in talking further or not always good to let them know, and at the least keep in touch for future. If there's nothing attention grabbing about the outreach they've probably sent the same thing to a hundred others so I wouldn't spend the time responding.
I respond to all when I have no Job. And when I have a job, I respond to only the ones that their first email has all the information I require and IF AND ONLY IF it suites my requirement at that very time could be the company, permanent or contract, compensation benefits or no benefits.
Um what recruiters?
I don’t have a developer background so I pointedly respond to everyone who reaches out to me about dev roles to tell them they’re off the mark.
Cant you hide your profile from them?
Did you check your LinkedIn settings to turn off that you’re open to work?
Never burn bridges unnecessarily , just give a polite no thank you for reaching out. Copy and paste if ya gotta. I’m very close with many recruiters and they have a longer memory and a tighter community than you might think.