How to Contact Recruiters Directly Without LinkedIn Connection Requests
You found the perfect recruiter. You click "Connect." You wait. And wait. They never accept. LinkedIn won't let you message them without a connection. You're stuck in LinkedIn jail.
What if you could just email them instead?
Sound Familiar?
LinkedIn's connection system is designed to keep you on LinkedIn, not to help you get hired.
Connection requests just sit there
You send connection requests to 20 recruiters. Weeks go by. They never accept. You can't message them without connecting first.
Can't message without connecting
LinkedIn won't let you message someone unless they accept your connection or you pay for InMail. It's a paywall disguised as a 'professional network.'
You're competing with 500 other people
That recruiter gets 50+ connection requests per day. Yours is buried. They'll never even see it, let alone accept it.
No way around the gatekeepers
You found the perfect recruiter at your dream company. But there's no company email on LinkedIn. No website contact. Just... nothing.
"I have 87 pending connection requests to recruiters. Some have been sitting there for 6 months. At this point I don't even know why I bother clicking 'Connect' anymore."
— Software engineer on r/cscareerquestions
Bypass LinkedIn. Contact Recruiters Directly via Email.
Here's why direct email is faster, cheaper, and more effective than LinkedIn.
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Skip the LinkedIn dance entirely
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