Author here.
A few notes:
I'm not proposing high touch methods are incorrect. I'm proposing there exists an alternative.
HR professionals, the receiving end, spend their day spamming people on LinkedIn, email, etc. The same is true about sales people, marketers, and anybody trying to get the word out, except they do it at scale. I'm a little surprised by how many folks take issue with messaging people who might be interested and also do exactly what you're doing.
If everybody does this, then job hunting becomes more like marketing since your message/resume has to stand out more. Consumers are bombarded with messages every day, they're good at ignoring things they don't want. The folks doing the hiring would become better "consumers".
Engineering roles are, in general, way easier to land than a non-engineering roles because there aren't enough decent engineers.
A few notes:
I'm not proposing high touch methods are incorrect. I'm proposing there exists an alternative.
HR professionals, the receiving end, spend their day spamming people on LinkedIn, email, etc. The same is true about sales people, marketers, and anybody trying to get the word out, except they do it at scale. I'm a little surprised by how many folks take issue with messaging people who might be interested and also do exactly what you're doing.
If everybody does this, then job hunting becomes more like marketing since your message/resume has to stand out more. Consumers are bombarded with messages every day, they're good at ignoring things they don't want. The folks doing the hiring would become better "consumers".
Engineering roles are, in general, way easier to land than a non-engineering roles because there aren't enough decent engineers.