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Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not As Great As You Think
An anonymous reader writes: Software engineers suffer from a problem that most other industries wish they had: too much demand. There's a great story at the Atlantic entitled Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (It Isn't as Awesome as You Might Think). This is a problem that many engineers deal with: place your resume on a job board and proceed to be spammed multiple times per day for jobs in places that you would never go to (URGENT REQUIREMENT IN DETROIT!!!!!, etc). Google "recruiter spam" and there are many tales of engineers being overwhelmed by this. One engineer, fed up by a lack of a recruiting spam blackhole, set up NoRecruitingSpam.com with directions on how to stop this modern tech scourge.
Have you been the victim of recruiting spam?
I got recruiter spam at my last job's e-mail address at a Fortune 500 company, which was odd because I really only used it for internal communications and didn't submit it anywhere. I actually got on the cases of a couple of them, telling them that it's unprofessional to send recruiting mail to someone's work address. Their response was the same: then add me to your junk mail list. So I did--I blocked it for the entire e-mail architecture.
Born and raised in South Detroit? And did you recently catch a midnight train to anywhere?
Hi, my name is Satish Kumar and I used to be a recruiter. You got me fired from 5 agencies now. Then my wife left me and took children. Then the bank foreclosed on my house. Now I live under the bridge and give out hand jobs for crack money and it is all your fault.