alt Hacker NewsI posted a comment in the monthly ”Who wants to be hired” thread and I’m now getting multiple emails per day from what seems to be LLM recruiters and career coaches. At first I thought it was complete scams, but after interacting with some of them I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s more complex than that. Some of them actually do propose real, suitable jobs (I think, or the scam is very sophisticated). Could it be that someone actually makes money in a reasonably honest way with these bots? I’m confused.
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From what I've seen: They're leaching middle-men. Not real recruiters but people offering to connect you with recruiters, but they get some kind of referral.
That or in some cases outright phishing attempts.
I've stopped posting on the HN hiring threads because this is the only outcome I now get. Which is sad because this was formerly a good route to connect with people.
I had the same problem. I posted in last month's thread and for a few weeks I got one or more automated emails a day from low quality recruiters and career coaches. Nearly every one follows the same pattern:
1. Email was from Gmail with a long username like "startupjobsrecruiting".
2. Clear template email with the experience I had posted copied nearly word-for-word.
3. Vague details on what they actually offer.
I responded to some when they first came in and the replies came back immediately indicating it's automated. Some also had automated follow up whether I responded to them or not.
I didn't seem to get any actual humans contacting me. Now I mark them all as spam.