I got a very similar email too.
Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
151–160 of 291 posts
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
That makes no sense becasue contacting the company directly is usually just a communication blackhole
Not if you're a valuable candidate. An example (I have intimate experience with) is the finance/hft space in NYC -- if you're employed at a competitive player in this space in trading/quant/engineering you will almost certainly be given a phone interview w/o question at every other competitor when you reach out. If you don't trust the 'contact us' forms on their website it's dead simple to search e.g. LinkedIn to fin…
[deleted]
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#153Not to troll but what is a "forced immigrant"?
A more than valid question! It's the only way I could figure out how to economically convey "I am a Russian who decided to leave Russia to not be complicit and because my history of protests and support for opposition makes it scary to stay, while I completely understand the level of privilege I'm enjoying and can't call myself a refugee even remotely". Even though I always wanted to live abroad, I didn't decide when…
You sound like a candidate for asylum? Despite the administration policy, asylum law is still on the books. Might be good to get an application in and cross your fingers for a subsequently more friendly admin.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#154My email is filled with junk from cybersecurity "experts" telling me that my open source project is "very compromised" and that they will gladly reveal to me what the issue is, if I commit to paying them a bug bounty. I get at least a few every week. I hate them, but I feel like we are well past the point where in any place where there is money to be made, the majority of cold outreach will be from semi-personalized…
Reminds me of all the recruiters who reach out to me saying they're working on filling some engineer position but never say the company name, and when asked, they want to have a call. Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line
I message them back and inform them I am reporting their message as spam. Seems to get a reaction.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#155[deleted]
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#156My email is filled with junk from cybersecurity "experts" telling me that my open source project is "very compromised" and that they will gladly reveal to me what the issue is, if I commit to paying them a bug bounty. I get at least a few every week. I hate them, but I feel like we are well past the point where in any place where there is money to be made, the majority of cold outreach will be from semi-personalized…
Reminds me of all the recruiters who reach out to me saying they're working on filling some engineer position but never say the company name, and when asked, they want to have a call. Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line
This is not in the recruiter's interest though, because you may just go past them and apply to the company directly, so they miss out on their revenue.
I love picking apart a recruiter's emails, in a handful of cases I see the advert and I'm like "Oh yeah I used to work there". Go and React in a telecom company in NL near where I live? Yeah I set that up. No I don't want to go back, not unless they hire an actual team.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#157My email is filled with junk from cybersecurity "experts" telling me that my open source project is "very compromised" and that they will gladly reveal to me what the issue is, if I commit to paying them a bug bounty. I get at least a few every week. I hate them, but I feel like we are well past the point where in any place where there is money to be made, the majority of cold outreach will be from semi-personalized…
Reminds me of all the recruiters who reach out to me saying they're working on filling some engineer position but never say the company name, and when asked, they want to have a call. Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line
The easy way to get around this is by telling the recruiter you've been actively applying with companies inside your state and for remote contract work and you don't want to be submitted twice.
They'll send over the company name right away.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#158[deleted]
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#159Not to troll but what is a "forced immigrant"?
A more than valid question! It's the only way I could figure out how to economically convey "I am a Russian who decided to leave Russia to not be complicit and because my history of protests and support for opposition makes it scary to stay, while I completely understand the level of privilege I'm enjoying and can't call myself a refugee even remotely". Even though I always wanted to live abroad, I didn't decide when…
Huh! Points to you for clarity of understanding. Wish I was an employer able to take note of this :) for now I would NOT take the 'apply for asylum' suggestion, not until we clean house. Could be the dumbest thing you could do right now.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#160AI and their armies of agents has been making the job search much much worse for both employers and employees - the reason is simply, spamming becomes extremely cheap and easy - sometimes it's literally one prompt away.
Find offline channels to connect with potential employers in person is your best bet, IMO. Good luck job search!