Is it unprofessional if I write "No recruiters! Thank You." in my LinkedIn Summary? Because I get at least 3-4 messages a day from recruiters with a lot of buzzwords.

It is not unprofessional; in fact, I'd do the same if I ever made an account on there.

They'll ignore it and contact you anyway

where are you from man..

“I’ve seen you have ‘no recruiters’ in your description. It made me laugh as it reminded me of myself 6 months ago, I completely agree with you, the way recruiters currently conduct themselves is disgraceful.

That’s why I stepped away and setup my own recruitment firm, so we can do things right. Would you be free for a call sometime to discuss how we could help each other?”

^ this x 4692, in the next 6 months

@practiseSafeHex Jesus fucking Christ.

@Coffe2Code I work in U.S.A. where the market is a disaster.

@ColdFore it will happen dude. I was fed up with maybe 1/10 of mine being about a hybrid mobile role. So I put “no hybrid” in mine. I’d say it’s gone to 4/10 now.

Keywords mofo, keywords!

No, but don't expect it to work.
They don't actually read anything.

Hi I'm recruiter xy,

were currently developing THE new facebook using blockchain backed up by maschine learning aswell as agile development stuff.

Pls respond

One day you make need them...let’s not piss them off just ignore them.

@b3b3 It's machine learning.
Du Maschine 😉

@katbreitin Trust me. There were 2 time that I really needed a job. I went to recruiters. I did not find anything. Not a single phone interview, let alone on site interview.

So many of my contacts on there are recruiters. I figure I'm collecting them for a rainy day. If things go south, I can go on that platform and basically post that I need a job and they'll all come running.

Isn’t the only reason for a LinkedIn account to advertise yourself to potential employers?

I have "don't call me during office hours" and just block the fuckers who do, it filters out the worst recruiters and i can look through the emails on weekends. Anything generic goes straight to the trash (if you can't even tell me what the company is doing then GTFO)

I keep getting recruiters offering help desk positions. Contract positions. In other countries. Listen, I spent two years in a help desk role. That's enough for my lifetime. I just got out last year. I'm not going back in. Especially not as a contractor. Especially not on another freaking continent.

@matste It's also for connecting with employers and coworkers. And even if it is for job-searching, what do you do after you get a new job? Delete your account?

@BoomRaccoon ah fuck I always mess it up. Thats for telling me, I'll try to remember :*

@ColdFore Are they really that useless? As a junior dev I am one of the ugly chicks at the party they don’t want to fuck...so they mostly leave me alone.