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?

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RTFA

[mrsam]

The norecruitingspam guy himself spammed news.admin.net-abuse.email a few days ago with this. All he's offering is an email filtering service that blacklists the Jobdiva spambags.

He posted his screed in a Usenet thread that I started over five years ago, that's archived by Google, at apparently has a pretty high ranking when someone is searching for more information about all the spam they're getting from the Jobdiva spam factory. Over five years ago I happen to notice that every recruiter spam that I received turns out to have come from the Jobdiva spam factory. Ever since then, once or twice a year someone finds that thread in Google Groups, and post a "me too" to the Usenet group. Which I find pretty funny.

After figuring out where all my recruiter spam is coming from, it was a simple matter of adjusting a few settings on my mail server, and, poof!, it was all gone. Originally I never thought much of it, and only posted the first message in that thread as a means of sharing my thoughts, and nothing more, but apparently someone else now discovered effective email filtering and thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. As Benny Hill would've said: biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig.... deal.

One good thing here is that now that he's got a good link from Slashdot, and, presuming that his web site is still up (haven't checked), because all his web site now only contains a big rant against the Jobdiva sleazebags, this will shine a bit of a brighter spotlight on those vermin, and perhaps shine some well-deserved sunshine on these sleazebags. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Re:Job market dynamics suck

[Anonymous Coward]

Same with Austin:

1: Got an interview as a Linux admin, and the interviewer demanded what an example ASA config was, and how long have I had my CCIE. When I reminded them that Linux != routers, I was shown the door.

2: I get bombarded by places asking for five years of Apple Swift programming.

3: When asked about my visa status, I mention, "US citizen", and get the reply that they want a number and a form with my US visa's expiration date or else they will not hire. Even a US passport, a birth certificate, and that, they want something reflecting my visa status. So, I give up and tell them, "MY FSCKING VISA IS MAXED OUT!"

4: Of course, I get the interviews where the person asks if I have a current TS/SCI clearance, or a CISSP, and with neither, I get shown the door.

5: Of course, there are the assholes that say they have jobs, make for a face to face interview in downtown Austin where parking or a taxi is $20+... then say that they were just doing interview pre-tests, and really sell interview services, so one has wasted a day.

You Got H1b !!!

[mpapet]

You are compliance chum for their H1b hire. They need to go through the motions of looking for an American and somehow never find anyone.

Tons of published tech jobs are h1b compliance chum.