Would you kindly stop spamming me?
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Would you kindly stop spamming me?
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Re: Would you kindly stop spamming me?
#2Yeah this is a really frustrating flaw in online job markets. I knew this would happen and never posted my stuff online; but it's also frustrating to go through job postings by hand to find ones that fit you. I ended up writing near regex complicated search filters on places like Indeed to get what I wanted.
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#3I get spammed in a whole different way. I share my name with an organisation: The Firstname Lastname Organization. Every so often, some recruiters email me résumés of people hoping to work at the Firstname Lastname Organization. Every time, I reply asking them to stop sending me these résumés, explaining that I am not the Firstname Lastname Organization and I am not hiring.
Even being told that they have the wrong address seems to be no deterrent for some recruiters. One day soon, even the richest YC alumni are going to be eclipsed by whoever figures out how to disintermediate these pricks into oblivion.
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#4Slightly off-topic rant.
Can someone explain to me why it is necessary to have the entire webpage refuse to render (white page (with scrollbar, "amusingly" enough)) if JS is disabled?
As far as I can tell, the entire website is slapped into a series of "Whatever happened to progressive enhancement? Say... Actually using HTML and CSS? Maybe converted from markup on the server, or when the post is created?
There are any number of reasons not to do things this way, and any number of alternatives that have advantages over this.
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#5Slightly off-topic rant. Can someone explain to me why it is necessary to have the entire webpage refuse to render (white page (with scrollbar, "amusingly" enough)) if JS is disabled? As far as I can tell, the entire website is slapped into a series of " Whatever happened to progressive enhancement? Say... Actually using HTML and CSS? Maybe converted from markup on the server, or when the post is created? There are a…
I too find this annoying, its apparently a "feature" using squarespace. Even squarespace's own website won't load without JS enabled.
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#6I am not 100% sure why recruiters are still tolerated in technology positions. It's time for the model to change - maybe engineers should have agents? If an engineer chooses to use an agent they could build a personal relationship with that person, who knows their skills and what they like to do, and avoid wasting time with positions they don't want to know about and are not suited for. Or not - handle job search in the normal way without recruiters.
We seem to always hear about the terrible shortage of engineers and related fields, so how is it that recruiters add any value?
I have never taken a position where a recruiter contacted me first. I've never even done an interview in that situation because they always see to be shotgunning jobs at everyone they possibly can - email costs nothing so why wouldn't they? I have always found a job rather than been found by the recruiter.
Monster.com and LinkedIn seem to be wretched hives of scum and villainy. The best advice I can give is to never use any "service" that makes it possible for everyone, without qualification or your explicit permission, to contact you. Build your personal networks. Apply for the jobs you want. You won't be losing anything. I never had a Monster.com presence but I did have LinkedIn - since removing it I have lost nothing but unsolicited contacts from recruiters who want me to look at jobs I don't want, and then for me to give up the contact details of anyone else I might know...
There are a few recruiters I like and trust, but the ones spamming like this need to be spoken to very sternly indeed.
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#7Another such organization is Cyber Coders. They constantly keep spamming me even after I unsubscribed, sent them email asking me to remove from their list and clicking 'Report Spam' many a times on GMail. I don't know their email always gets through. I was completely surprised with number of recruiters [1] they have on board. I guess spamming must work for them to have so many 'recruiters' on their staff.
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#8I would like to know how to set these people on fire.
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#9I had a similar situation occur after taking the GRE exam, after which they ask whether they can share your contact info with interested schools. Of course this sounded like a great idea when I was still deciding where to apply, but it turned into a major annoyance when I'm still receiving spam from these backwoods colleges more than a year after accepting an offer. And like the article, there's no global unsubscribe; I have to unsub from each school's list individually. Moral of the story -- be careful because you can't unspill the milk.
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#10I wanted Pheanis to join me on God's temple. I want Gadwa to join me on God's temple.