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Maybe we should get a list going of scummy recruiters.

• danesparza 5y ago
  I would be on board with this. I would even pay a small fee to have access to this list.
  • irvingprime 5y ago
    It would be too huge.
• lawwantsin17 5y ago
  It would be a whitelist more than a blacklist, frankly.
• ravenstine 5y ago
  A whitelist (or whatever the correct term for that is now) would be more effective. Frankly, I'd say the vast majority of recruiters are bad. They are worse than a used car salesperson, and I will never deal with any of them again besides the occasional one that's actually working directly for the employer, as opposed to third-party recruiters from large recruiting firms. A few years ago, I was working on some software that would find quality job listings and auto-apply for them (in theory; I don't believe I finished the form-filling part). Part of that filtering involved removing any listings from third-party recruiting firms. Blocking on the person-level really wasn't practical. While it worked somewhat, it seems that more of these firms appear and change names every year. It would always be imperfect unless someone was constantly monitoring the countless number of recruiting firms. My best experiences were with small-time recruiters who worked for themselves. I'd much rather identify who these recruiters are and then ignore all the other ones by default.
• m3047 5y ago
  Maybe we should gamify it. Actually I was thinking of places with the same posting for months or years. My inspiration was remembering the amusement that FuckedCompany provided... and it was surprisingly accurate.