LinkedIn and Recruiters

[Keith Tan]

Got plenty of messages from recruiters in LinkedIn.

Don't know whether they are spam or scam.

Anyone have any successful experiences in landing quantish roles with such recruiters?

 

[Daniel Duffy]

be careful of spam sites that "look" like Linkedin

e.g. noreplyblabla@e.linkedin.bla

the e. is suspect

 

[MRoss]

be careful of spam sites that "look" like Linkedin

e.g. noreplyblabla@e.linkedin.bla

the e. is suspect

not the .bla?

Anyhow, there are many recruiters who spam job offers to anyone claiming to be a quant on LinkedIn (I have been in close contact with four, though to be fair I am not looking for a job now). If you actually respond they will want you to come down and meet them. A lot of them are legit, just to be quite frank they don't get the best jobs (at least from my experience).

 

[Peter Wagner]

not the .bla?

Anyhow, there are many recruiters who spam job offers to anyone claiming to be a quant on LinkedIn (I have been in close contact with four, though to be fair I am not looking for a job now). If you actually respond they will want you to come down and meet them. A lot of them are legit, just to be quite frank they don't get the best jobs (at least from my experience).

I'm one of them. I left my job in financial IT last year to start a recruiting firm. I differentiate myself from other recruiters by having 20+ years of experience working in the industry. This gives me a pretty good understanding of how things work inside these orgs, and it also gives me a lot of contacts within the industry who I work closely with. I only work on what I consider to be excellent opportunities for the simple reason that I can't attract good talent otherwise.

I won't comment on other recruiters, but I'd be more than happy to give you my opinion on quality of any opportunity that is presented to you. Just email me at peter@affinityny.com.

 

[Ken Abbott]

(I have been in close contact with four, though to be fair I am not looking for a job now). If you actually respond they will want you to come down and meet them..

You'd better not be looking.

 

[MRoss]

You'd better not be looking.