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I share your exasperation and agree that while I hold back such emotions, sometimes I am tempted to reply back in a bit offensive manner. And I have never repli

by hgupta 13y ago

I share your exasperation and agree that while I hold back such emotions, sometimes I am tempted to reply back in a bit offensive manner. And I have never replied to any such mails in past, not doing it in present, nor I am inclined to do this in future. But I cannot agree with your second point in Additionally section. The recruiters are doing their jobs, whether or not just sending cold emails. They are not obligated to understand or even know the 'work style of engineers'.

Robin_Message 13y ago
> They are not obligated to understand or even know the 'work style of engineers'. Salespeople (which is effectively what recruiters are) are not obligated to know anything about their product or customers. But it can really help.
- hgupta 13y ago
  If knowing your customer strategy works well, then the world would be much happier place to live because then we won't get any automated adverts on mobile etc. I understand your point, but imagine, a recruiter planning to call you only to ignore it thinking 'Oh, s/he a busy person. Let me not disturb s/he'. Not going to work in real world. 'Knowing your customers' usually means that sale-person know how and what a customer is thinking so s/he can bank upon it. It doesn't mean that sales-person should contact only when customer is away from work and is not too busy to talk.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  > Salespeople (which is effectively what recruiters are) are not obligated to know anything about their product or customers. But it can really help. Maybe they aren't, but the degree to which one understands the product one is selling is the degree I treat them as a helpful person instead of lying, malicious fraud. If you don't understand anything about the product you're selling, then every single word you utter in favour of it is a blatant lie.

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I share your exasperation and agree that while I hold back such emotions, sometimes I am tempted to reply back in a bit offensive manner. And I have never repli

by hgupta 13y ago

Robin_Message 13y ago
> They are not obligated to understand or even know the 'work style of engineers'. Salespeople (which is effectively what recruiters are) are not obligated to know anything about their product or customers. But it can really help.
- hgupta 13y ago
  If knowing your customer strategy works well, then the world would be much happier place to live because then we won't get any automated adverts on mobile etc. I understand your point, but imagine, a recruiter planning to call you only to ignore it thinking 'Oh, s/he a busy person. Let me not disturb s/he'. Not going to work in real world. 'Knowing your customers' usually means that sale-person know how and what a customer is thinking so s/he can bank upon it. It doesn't mean that sales-person should contact only when customer is away from work and is not too busy to talk.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago
  > Salespeople (which is effectively what recruiters are) are not obligated to know anything about their product or customers. But it can really help. Maybe they aren't, but the degree to which one understands the product one is selling is the degree I treat them as a helpful person instead of lying, malicious fraud. If you don't understand anything about the product you're selling, then every single word you utter in favour of it is a blatant lie.