IT Recruiter Viktoriya Cherevach told about a strange coincidence on LinkedIn — literally in 10 minutes, a dozen candidates wrote to her on Telegram.
IT Recruiter Viktoriya Cherevach told about a strange coincidence on LinkedIn — literally in 10 minutes, a dozen candidates wrote to her on Telegram.
«Recruiters, is this some kind of new scam? In the last 10 minutes, I’ve received 10+ very similar messages — supposedly from „candidates.“ The text, style, and even the presentation are almost the same. Has anyone else encountered something like this lately?» she said and showed a screenshot.
Victoria also clarified that she had not posted an open vacancy anywhere, and at the same time, very similar messages were coming to Telegram.
The specialist’s post resonated with the community, with over 140 comments. Other recruiters say they are receiving similar «streams» of feedback in their personal messages.
Kateryna Lyubatska, EY Recruiter, says she gets the same thing, even though she doesn’t come across IT vacancies on a regular basis. «I tried to ask where the contacts came from — some database was leaked and now they’re really spamming. Most accounts self-destruct within a week. A very strange ‘trend’,» she noted.
Head of Human Resources Development Viktoriya Marko has the opposite opinion. «Actually, I don’t see anything strange. Your Telegram is listed in your profile, and there is a vacancy with a fairly popular stack. As for the text, it’s a regular business-style message, I think that’s how most developers who are looking for a job write these days. And as for newly created accounts, I’ve often come across the practice among developers of creating a separate profile for job searching so as not to miss anything,» she notes.
Senior Data Analyst Dmitry Rodionov says that the recruiter is dealing with an AI agent that finds vacancies and generates text for people. «This process was launched by Indians a year ago, I saw the source code on Github in free access. I think this service has reached Ukraine… It will be „fun“ next. What to do: configure your ATS more strictly,» the IT specialist noted.
Meanwhile, developers admit that they write to recruiters in a similar manner, and the large number of follow-up messages may be caused by the market situation. «I write like that too. And how should you start getting to know a recruiter?) From the words „what are you, boss?“? Obviously, this is the official style of an entry letter, where you greet and briefly tell about what you worked on and add a resume. What else should be there? And as for the number — for example, over the past week, only two vacancies with requirements relevant to my experience were added to Middle on my stack on Genie. In two days, 150 people applied for them,» wrote Middle .NET Developer Yulia Gapon.
Roman Chebotaryov, Senior IT Project Manager, notes: «As a person who is currently searching and communicates with recruiters regularly, I will tell you: no, it is not always a scam, currently it is the only opportunity to have at least some interviews. Through the same AI and auto-apply services, you can only break through this information noise and ATS, and in order to have 1-2 interviews at least at the first stage, you need to submit at least 20 applications per day, it is unrealistic to write them all off manually. Therefore, if hiring is now built mainly on ATS, then you have to at least rewrite your CV for each position + try to get through to personal ones. Therefore, candidates are forced to do this.»
«Expectations have been met… Especially considering that almost all recruiters (about 90%) use artificial intelligence to screen candidates. This forces applicants to also resort to automation to meet market requirements. When a person sends out hundreds of resumes and is faced with the fact that his data is processed by ordinary AI, he inevitably begins to think about the need to automate his actions,» explains Senior Software Engineer Oleg Klokov.
Vlad Lesnoy, Senior Full-stack Engineer, adds: «This is literally what candidate DM looked like a couple of years ago. There are a lot of recruiters who have a very similar style, pitch, and even text. The market has changed, and you just end up on the other side.»
