Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not As Great As You Think

Posted by timothy on Friday May 1, 2015 @12:02PM from the zippy-the-pinhead-is-always-hiring dept.

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?

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Re:Just blacklist their mail servers by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-01 15:01 · Score: 5, Funny

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.