Increase in recruiter outreach when you actively respond to inquires?

Question

Every once in a while I'll respond to recruiter outreach on LinkedIn, and I find that each time I do, I start to receive an influx of opportunities in my inbox follows.

Does anyone know if LI tracks your receptiveness to LI recruiter outreach so they can feed that data recruiters and hiring managers?

Accepted Answer

I am a former recruiter, responding increases the likelihood of getting a message.

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It MIGHT make you trend higher in searches, but pretty sure that kind of thing is a black box.

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I don't think it makes a difference.

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I've not noticed any trend like that. Usually, I'll respond indicating interest (on the rare occasion I even get a message) and then I don't hear anything. I can only assume it's due to something I lack as a candidate, or I'm just a difficult person to work with for some reason. Either way, I feel bad for the recruiter who wasted their time reaching out to me. They probably did it by accident.

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Maybe? Not sure what the algorithm does there. I know that I get interest in waves - feast/famine scenario.

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Possibly something on their backend, the more receptive you are they may push up top to recommended leads to those paying for the recruitment platform.

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Interesting question. I tend to get a bunch of messages around the same time also, but it's hard to know if that's because of my actions, or that everyone is hiring at the same time and I'm in a prime demographic.

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Oh yes ! Hahahah I always think it's more of the suggestions that LinkedIn pulls up based on who's actively looking out / searching for jobs etc etc.

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Increase in recruiter outreach when you actively respond to inquires?

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Armageddon

Increase in recruiter outreach when you actively respond to inquires?

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