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Where is the national do-not-call list for clueless tech recruiters?

Kalium 11y ago
I don't know. And half of appear to be operating out of India anyway, judging by the noise in the background on the lines.
rogerbinns 11y ago
I maintain one at http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt My resume has a "note to recruiters" attached. It is very clear if a recruiter has made any effort to read any of that. The clueless ones end up in the list above. http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html
- jacquesm 11y ago
  Priceless. That ought to be a thing like the 'GPL' or other licenses, a 'license to contact'. Consider making it available under CC so others can use it too and maybe the cumulative effect would be enough to make some real changes.
- pronoiac 11y ago
  Oof, I recognize one of those, from an email today. I'd thought I was talking to an internal recruiter... Incidentally, you have some duplicates.
  - notfoss 11y ago
    > Incidentally, you have some duplicates. Nice catch. I guess that either he doesn't check for duplicates or he is doubly irritated by the duplicate ones :P
  - rogerbinns 11y ago
    Sometimes they are so egregious I have to add them twice! I'm guessing it occurred due to doing a batch update, and having multiple emails from the same spammer.
- photosinensis 11y ago
  I might add pierpoint.com to that list. A few hours ago, I got an email from them asking me if I was interested in a job with my immediate previous employer (which is kind of a mu question to ask, as I'm so interested in that idea that I've actually secured a start date there in less than 2 weeks--let's just say that I really liked it there and regret leaving). If the guy there had done anything more than scrape LinkedIn for .NET stuff (which I can do and have done), he'd know that I would not need assistance in returning to $FORMER_EMPLOYER.

I don't know. And half of appear to be operating out of India anyway, judging by the noise in the background on the lines.

rogerbinns 11y ago

I maintain one at http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt http://www.rogerbinns.com/blocked_recruiters.txt My resume has a "note to recruiters" attached. It is very clear if a recruiter has made any effort to read any of that. The clueless ones end up in the list above. http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html http://www.rogerbinns.com/recruiters.html

jacquesm 11y ago
Priceless. That ought to be a thing like the 'GPL' or other licenses, a 'license to contact'. Consider making it available under CC so others can use it too and maybe the cumulative effect would be enough to make some real changes.
pronoiac 11y ago
Oof, I recognize one of those, from an email today. I'd thought I was talking to an internal recruiter... Incidentally, you have some duplicates.
- notfoss 11y ago
  > Incidentally, you have some duplicates. Nice catch. I guess that either he doesn't check for duplicates or he is doubly irritated by the duplicate ones :P
- rogerbinns 11y ago
  Sometimes they are so egregious I have to add them twice! I'm guessing it occurred due to doing a batch update, and having multiple emails from the same spammer.
photosinensis 11y ago
I might add pierpoint.com to that list. A few hours ago, I got an email from them asking me if I was interested in a job with my immediate previous employer (which is kind of a mu question to ask, as I'm so interested in that idea that I've actually secured a start date there in less than 2 weeks--let's just say that I really liked it there and regret leaving). If the guy there had done anything more than scrape LinkedIn for .NET stuff (which I can do and have done), he'd know that I would not need assistance in returning to $FORMER_EMPLOYER.