So many job postings! 3

[materialsliz]

I'm on LinkedIn and subscribe to various groups. I just received an email update from 5 groups with over 50 job postings in them, not one is dual posting. Until today the email updates I received previously only had 1 or 2 job postings in them.

Could this be the beginning of the end? Has the tide turned?

 

[FeX32]

If it has for you. Good on ya!


Fe

 

[materialsliz]

Fortunately, I am not in need of them, but for those who are, if you have not checked out LinkedIn, you might want to.

 

[corus]

Personally I woouldn't bother with LinkedIn as it seems to be infested with the leeches of the employment market, recruitment agencies. Their aim appears to be to get your personal email address. Presumably so they can either bombard you with useless job offers, sell your address on to other leeches, or make claim they have so many people on their books. Avoid them like the plague and never give your email address away.

corus

 

[ubercad]

I have recieved a few inquires from the leeches but I actually recieved an inquiry from Tesla Motors.

The glass is operating at 50% capacity.

 

[materialsliz]

I've never had that problem. The recruiters that have contacted me all sounded reputable and were representing companies I know and jobs I would have been interested in had I been unemployed or unhappy with my current job.

Like everything, take it with a grain of salt. I would put up with quite a bit from harassing recruiters if I needed a job badly enough. I would also setup a separate email account for job hunting which I would close after I found a job.

 

[cry22]

It is also common practice for companies to test the market for staff availability just to see what kind of resume and what kind of qualifications are available.

The responses to the add (or the lack of) gives a good gage of the available talent pool. This is important data, because if the offer out there is weak say for senior engineers, the employer will quickly match (and even beat)any offer coming to his own senior guy, because he knows the available replacement talent out there is zero.

It seems that when one does it, everyone follows suit, especially like you say, when people start seeing the end of the tunnel.

There are no jobs out there yet, the adds are fake for the most part, even from the repurable companies.

Employees are too busy and too poor (or lack the vision) to gage the market the way companies do.

 

[ajack1]

Well speaking as a company owner who is bombarded with emails from recruitment agencies telling me they have many high calibre people on their books that would be ideal for my needs, without actually knowing what my needs are or the fact that we are a long way from needing to recruit anyway, I would say we are still a long way from recovery.

 

[kontiki99]

I believe LinkedIn is trying to sell data they have no way to obtain (without paying anyway).

So, they advertise something, people like the concept and volunteer info, that volunteered info becomes what they are marketing as their product.

I see it like classmates dot com for the workplace in that regard.

That's why they badger the hell out of you after they get your email address.