alt Hacker NewsI think you misunderstood.
I'm not talking about switching to cold contacting companies as a job hunting strategy. I'm saying if you get a suspicious outreach from a rando on linked in on behalf of a company THEN you only continue if you can reach out to the same person via official company channels.
in principle that makes sense but there is no vector of reaching anyone
actual first party recruiter’s linkedin inbox is unusable full of candidates trying to take initiative, and there is no way to reach anyone from the company from the outside cold specifically to avoid that exact thing