Man I hate getting recruiter emails... I get this vague description of the job for a "hot startup" or "well funded startup" or "established startup"... and I ha

Man I hate getting recruiter emails... I get this vague description of the job for a "hot startup" or "well funded startup" or "established startup"... and I have no idea what they actually make, what the company is about, etc. STARTUPS: STOP USING RECRUITERS! in fact... everyone stop using recruiters. Look on monster.com and dice.com and stack overflow careers and whatever else. I guarantee you, recruiters aren't going to magically find people that don't have their resumes listed there. Anyone who wants a job has their resume listed up there. Find some people that look good, and email them. It's not a full time job, and the quality of candidates you get will more than make up for the lost time in actually reading through resumes. I pay 100x the attention to an email from a real person at a real company who can actually talk about what they do, how they do it, and what I would be expected to do, than I do an email from a recruiter who just wants to place me at whatever company they can get me into. Recruiters don't care about you and they don't care about me. They want a quickie - wham bam, thank you ma'am. Maybe it's just Boston, I don't know, but you look on all the big sites, and it's 95% recruiters. Do you think job applicants are dumb? That they won't do some basic searches to find the job your HR guy posted on dice.com? Which of these do you think I'm more likely to click on? Job #213 from TechRecruiterz.com Full stack engineer for SomeAwesomeStartup.com One is a position at an actual company, one is an advertisement for a Recruiter who doesn't give any identifying information about the job, and doesn't actually care if I'm a match for a job so long as I take A job... any job, so he can get paid.