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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:I work in Detroit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apparently you have know clue whats going on in detroit. Its an absolutley huge town for engineers. Hello auto industry (fca, gm and ford) with all the car infotainment and mobile devices and tech being put into cars lots of jobs. Plus a plethora of many other industries. Detroit over the last 5 years has had a renaissance of revitalization and companies are paying big cash for top talent to work and live in Detroit. Living in the midwest and make +6 figures with the cost of living is an absolute goldmine. But if you feel that way stay away and I am happy to take those jobs!

  2. don't call these offers. they aren't by bzipitidoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This article is about spam, not real offers. If they were real offers, it would give the lowdown-- location, skills, duties, and pay. It would be an actual employment contract, and all the candidate would have to do is sign up, or not.

    So often, these so-called jobs are fake. There isn't a real job, they're just harvesting resumes. Or maybe there is but they've already settled on a candidate, and everyone else has no real chance, the employer is only going through the motions to satisfy EEOC rules.

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    Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"
  3. Re:If SPAM is a problem, you aren't meant for IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, I won't get an account at an ad brokers which collaborates with the NSA and which spends millions on lobbying away your privacy. You total idiot.

  4. Re:How I manage these calls by ewhac · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Sounds like my algorithm.

    Very very occasionally, if the description sounds interesting, I'll paste the description/requirements into Google. Most of these spamming third-party recruiters just copy-paste from public job postings, so Google can usually find the original posting on the employer's Web site.

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    Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
  5. Re:Make me an offer by Daemonik · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have that a bit backwards. US businesses have paid off US politics to sell out US workers. Wal-Mart did more for China than any US policy ever could.