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33 Recruiter Messages in 33 Days: My Daily LinkedIn Routine

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•By André Pinheiro
Quick Summary

Apply to many jobs every day, mark external applications on LinkedIn, and add recruiters daily. Then make the profile convert: a headline with role, specialty and stack, every skill tied to a role, the client company instead of the consultancy, a custom URL, Open to Work for recruiters only, and a resume in each job’s own words.

In the last 33 days I got 33 messages from recruiters asking for an interview. I’m a backend dev with 10 years of experience, based in Brazil.

Some numbers from my LinkedIn:

  • 2,500+ connections
  • 159 profile views from recruiters in the last 90 days
  • 700+ applications through LinkedIn in the last few months (Easy Apply and external links), plus around 200 on other job boards
  • At least 5 job offers in the last 12 months
  • Salary went from R$13k/month in 2025 to R$20k/month by the end of 2026 (roughly US$2.4k → US$3.7k)

I put a lot of work into my profile (more on that below), but the daily routine is what made the biggest difference.

1. I apply to a lot of jobs every day

Volume beats perfection. I apply even without a 100% fit. I can’t prove it, but when I send more applications, more recruiters find me in search, including for jobs I never applied to.

2. External application? I mark it on LinkedIn

Most of the time I don’t even fill out the external form. I click the job, wait for the company site to open, go back to LinkedIn and click “Yes, I applied” when it asks. Whoever posted the job sees I took action.

3. I add recruiters every day

People search → recruiters in my field → connect. Every day, spread across the week, because LinkedIn caps weekly invites. And I always add whoever posted the job I applied to.

For remote and international roles, search “tech recruiter latam”, “tech recruiter US” and “talent acquisition”, filtered by Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Ukraine, Brazil and the US.

What I did to the profile, so the routine turns into messages

  • Headline = role + specialty + stack. “Senior Java Software Engineer | Spring Boot · Kafka · AWS”. It’s what recruiters type into search.
  • Every skill linked to a role, and nothing you don’t want to work with. I’ve written JS and Python; they’re not on my profile.
  • Consultancy? List the client. I work for a consultancy, and when I changed each role’s company to the client I was placed at instead of the consultancy, recruiter DMs went up even more. I still say it right in the first line of the description: “Contract via [consultancy]”.
  • A custom URL like /in/your-name-java-engineer, and Open to Work visible to recruiters only, with no green frame.
  • A resume in the job’s own words: if the job says “Google Cloud Platform” and your CV says “GCP”, the ATS may pick someone with less experience.

The counterintuitive part

I know the best way to land a job on LinkedIn isn’t applying. It’s a recruiter DMing you. Applying is still the most important part of my routine, and the whole method is built around that: getting your profile shown more often when recruiters search.

It’s a numbers game

I see people complaining that they applied to 50 jobs and only got 5 interviews. Believe me, that’s a lot. Job search is a game of big numbers. Applying to a bunch of jobs and hearing nothing back isn’t the system failing, that’s how the game works.

I just keep applying. A lot of the time I walk into an interview without remembering when I applied or which recruiter I talked to. What I care about is staying really good at interviews, so I don’t worry much about whether a given process ends in an offer.

Yes, this is a lot of work. That’s why I built botin to automate most of it: Easy Apply on autopilot, external job forms filled for you, profile fixes, a fit score on every job and a resume written in each job’s own words. It worked well for me.
André Pinheiro
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is it better to apply to jobs or wait for recruiters on LinkedIn?
Recruiter messages land jobs more often, but applying every day is what gets your profile shown in recruiter searches. Do both: apply daily and make the profile easy to find.
Is 5 interviews from 50 applications bad?
No. That is a good rate. Job search is a numbers game, and most applications never get a reply.
Should I list the consultancy or the client on LinkedIn?
Listing the client company you were placed at tends to bring more recruiter messages. Say in the first line of the description that the contract was through the consultancy, so it matches a background check.

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