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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Job-hunting on Linkedin: Recruiters, Groups and Networking, oh my!
 
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Disco Dickdog
Nov 30, 2007
 I recently got internal recommendations for a couple of positions at the same company. Is it okay to message and add someone who I think is the recruiter for one of those positions, basically just saying "Hi, I applied online for position XXXXXX, please make sure to consider me."? What should that message look like, or is that strategy likely to backfire?

Thanks!

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Disco Dickdog
Nov 30, 2007

HiroProtagonist posted:

If you have internal recommendations, why not have those people go to the recruiter themselves and then tell you who it is (or at least send the recruiter an email themselves and forward it to you afterwards) so you have their contact info?

Then all you need to do is send a message to the recruiter once your internal contacts let you know they spoke to the recruiter and recommended you to them. Something like "Hi, I'm YOURNAME, and my friend XXXXXXX told me he spoke to you about this position YYYYYYYY that he thinks I'd be great for. I already applied online to kick things off, but I attached my resume here for your convenience. I look forward to speaking with you in the future about this opportunity. Thanks, YOURNAME."

It's a pretty big company, and the 'internal recommendation' is just a peoplesoft note on my online application, as far as I can tell. (I told my friend which roles I was interested in on the company's job bank, then he sent me emails with special links to each position) The roles I applied for are both similar to my friend's job, but on different teams, and each team seems to have their own recruiters, so I'm not sure if he knows the recruiters for other teams.


Edit: I am also applying for similar roles with other companies without the internal recommendations. If I find the recruiters for those teams, is it reasonable to add/contact them directly as well?

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