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I make it a point to reply to recruiters. But there's many different types of recruiting email. I completely ignore (and sometimes even filter straight to the t
by city41 10y ago
I make it a point to reply to recruiters. But there's many different types of recruiting email. I completely ignore (and sometimes even filter straight to the trash) blatantly shotgunned form emails.
If the email shows any effort whatsoever, mentioning a project I worked on, mentioning my current job, pointing out the role in question would fit my skills and it actually does, basically anything at all that suggests it's not just a form email sent to hundreds of people, then I will reply.
However, there's a third type of recruiting email that shows the person on the other side really is directly targeting you. It usually comes from the person who would be your manager, or at least someone who has a direct stake in the company (say the CTO or CEO at a small company). These emails I take seriously and appreciate. One of these led me to my current job.
Oh and I don't appreciate recruiting emails that have tracking links in them. Usually I will politely respond that I don't appreciate the tracking.
- michaelhoffman 10y agoA CEO of a small company once sent me what might have been a really interesting opportunity and I was going to reply but then I noticed the tracking links and realized it was just a very-well-crafted form letter. I stopped considering it then.
- joshuakarjala 10y agoKeep in mind - the CEO in question could be writing personal e-mails out from an ATS / Sourcing tool that helps keep track of communications. Tracking links are not always == shotgun approach
- HarryHirsch 10y agoTracking links are always extremely bad form, though. I'd be interested in hearing from the other side, though, why such behaviour would be considered acceptable.
- stagbeetle 10y agoBy tracking links do you mean custom-generated links to a certain page that reply back to some software showing that you clicked the link?
- city41 10y agoYes, exactly. Usually they are in the form of http://sometrackingwebsite.com/someid?nextUrl=https://youtube.com/.. http://sometrackingwebsite.com/someid?nextUrl=https://youtub....
- Trundle 10y agoI think of acceptable behaviour in terms of a blacklist rather than a whitelist. I don't have a problem with tracking links because I don't see a reason to have a problem with tracking links.
- rfrey 10y agoTracking pixels on emails aren't always an indication of a form letter. Marketing folks use lots of services that add tracking to all their outgoing email. (Whether that's OK or not for you is a different matter, I'm just pointing out that it could have still been an individual email.)