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Your argument boils down to: Large corporations do not have to sell employment. Potential employees should feel honored to merely be contacted on the b

Your argument boils down to: Large corporations do not have to sell employment. Potential employees should feel honored to merely be contacted on the basis of an opportunity. This sounds a lot like a cargo cult, or some weird corporatism worship. Frankly if I'm contacted by a recruiter who is a direct employee of a company, and it is blatantly obvious I'm receiving a form letter based on a keyword search of a resume data base. I know exactly what my role will be at this company, an employee ID in a database row.

deong 10y ago
I don't think the argument is that you must feel "honored". Just not personally affronted by it. I work for a company that has open developer positions. None of them are related to keyboard firmware, but if you told me nothing about a potential candidate except that he'd been doing keyboard firmware for fun, my first instinct would be, "great! Let's see if he wants to come in for an interview". Don't we all spout the company line about how specific skills are less important than "passion" or whatever? Well, then don't bitch if someone contacts you about something other than the specific skills on your CV. You don't have prostrate yourself before their glorious presence, but I don't see a reason to get upset about it.
madeofpalk 10y ago
No, it doesn't. You're putting an awful lot of words in my mouth there. Generally speaking, they'll be two types of recruiting companies like this are doing: 1) General filling headcount. X department has N open roles for developers who they need suitable people for. It doesn't really matter who the person is, as long as they're suitable (and they'll figure that out with screening calls and interviews). These are the types of roles that these shotgun form emails are sent out to. 2) Headhunting specific people (for specific roles). A company is after someone in particular who they already know about, or they're after a fairly specific type of person (for an IMPORTANT role) so they'll do a bit research on who they want to approach. Of course I don't think anyone should feel honoured to receive a form email. I just don't think it's worth getting your knickers in a twist over it. They irritate me slightly, but I get over it. If I wrote a 1000 word article on every piece of recruiter spam[1] I receive I wouldn't have time to do actual work. [1] Amusing anecdote: One day In the office a whole bunch of phones and computers when off. I assumed it was a whole company email, but nope - it was a recruiter who had emailed everyone looking for MERN developers.

deong 10y ago

I don't think the argument is that you must feel "honored". Just not personally affronted by it. I work for a company that has open developer positions. None of them are related to keyboard firmware, but if you told me nothing about a potential candidate except that he'd been doing keyboard firmware for fun, my first instinct would be, "great! Let's see if he wants to come in for an interview". Don't we all spout the company line about how specific skills are less important than "passion" or whatever? Well, then don't bitch if someone contacts you about something other than the specific skills on your CV. You don't have prostrate yourself before their glorious presence, but I don't see a reason to get upset about it.

madeofpalk 10y ago

No, it doesn't. You're putting an awful lot of words in my mouth there. Generally speaking, they'll be two types of recruiting companies like this are doing: 1) General filling headcount. X department has N open roles for developers who they need suitable people for. It doesn't really matter who the person is, as long as they're suitable (and they'll figure that out with screening calls and interviews). These are the types of roles that these shotgun form emails are sent out to. 2) Headhunting specific people (for specific roles). A company is after someone in particular who they already know about, or they're after a fairly specific type of person (for an IMPORTANT role) so they'll do a bit research on who they want to approach. Of course I don't think anyone should feel honoured to receive a form email. I just don't think it's worth getting your knickers in a twist over it. They irritate me slightly, but I get over it. If I wrote a 1000 word article on every piece of recruiter spam[1] I receive I wouldn't have time to do actual work. [1] Amusing anecdote: One day In the office a whole bunch of phones and computers when off. I assumed it was a whole company email, but nope - it was a recruiter who had emailed everyone looking for MERN developers.