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SE-Radio Episode 258: Cody Voellinger on Recruiting Software Engineers

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Why LinkedIn and the Internet Are Changing the Recruitment Industry

Recruiting was a very different profession 10 years ago before LinkedIn and the internet really turned it into this opportunity to, hey, if I send out a million messages and 0.1% of the funds, I can make a decent living. The recruiting industry went through this like mass spamming phase, which was obviously the large part due to LinkedIn and making everyone's professional information available to all. People realized, hey, what took a long time and a lot of hard work and so was rewarded appropriately previously. Now I can do,. you know, one 100th of that amount of work and still get the same award and I don't see any repercussions to sending out these million in-

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