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I've been actively interviewing for the past few weeks, and I've noticed that a very large number of emails from companies and recruiters (mostly recruiters) ha

I've been actively interviewing for the past few weeks, and I've noticed that a very large number of emails from companies and recruiters (mostly recruiters) have been marked as Spam or at least shunted off to a non-Inbox folder. I don't have any specific custom filters in place, so this is 100% Gmail's doing. I find that interesting and frustrating -- and none of these companies/recruiters have ever seen this before! Seems like a relatively new phenomenon, at least for these people. I wonder what Google's internal metrics show...

jimktrains2 11y ago
> recruiters have been marked as Spam As they should be, because they are. They have terrible practices and I have never met one I would want to do business with.
junto 11y ago
This is mainly due to the fact that so many recruiters have poor practices. I have a rule that if I'm contacted by a recruiter (unsolicited) I politely ask them to remove my details from their database. I label their email as unsubscribed and archive the email in Gmail. When I get a second email from a recruiter that previously has been marked as unsubscribed then I click that 'mark as spam' button. I've been doing this for eight years, since I'm quite happy with my work situation and have actively tried to remove myself from their databases over that time. However my CV still seems to be floating around, even though I've also deleted it from every online job portal I was signed up to. At some point most recruiters need to feel that pain, because they just don't listen.
jpindar 11y ago
I get quite a lot of spam that is meant to look like it's from a recruiter, but are clearly sent at random.