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Recruiter spam seems inevitable when responding to such posts, but the way I avoid long term recruiter spam is by creating an email addresses for each time I se
by mevile 7y ago
Recruiter spam seems inevitable when responding to such posts, but the way I avoid long term recruiter spam is by creating an email addresses for each time I seek employment.
I own a domain so I create an email address such as career2019@example.com where example.com takes place for my actual domain. I recommend this. I also use this temporary email to sign up for linkedin for the duration of my employment seeking.
After having secured employment, I delete the linkedin and then never use the email again, nor look at whatever may arrive into its inbox.
- lzzzfelipe 7y agoYou can always just do yourname+career2019@gmail.com
- sailfast 7y agoTrue, but then it's pretty easy to reverse-engineer what your actual email address is for later.
- mevile 7y agoThis approach doesn't prevent your email address from being clogged with recruiter spam, unless you want to maintain filters forever, and as another says, the real email is still there. I don't even use the same domain as my real email. Jumping in exposes one to a subset of misbehaving recruiters, those making a bad name for the rest, an experience comparable to taking a bath in shit and I don't want to taint my daily life with its rank smell once I'm done prospecting.
- quickthrower2 7y agoA throwaway GMAIL address and using +XYZ would be a reasonable solution. You could set up a rule to forward everything to your main email, but then as you get spam on certain addresses, adapt the rule to not forward email sent to those.
- mevile 7y agoYes this would also work.
- patientplatypus 7y agoI've found that its actually better to use my own email address. Oh you added me to a mailing list with thousands of other people. And you addressed me as "Dear Trusted Associate". Well thanks for the information! Now I know to redirect any and all future emails directly to my trash. If you do it enough with gmail after about a month you'll find you get maybe one or two a week. Rot in my trash bin Martha.