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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. (URGENT REQUIREMENT IN DETROIT!!!!!, etc) by rcrodgers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Really? It's an example and all, but as developer born and raised in Detroit (the city proper) and a current resident of the city, is it necessary to kick the place even more? Any way, recruiter spam is a constant pest for me as well; one recent one was trying to get me interested in a "Live Chat Customer Service"' opportunity somewhere... I think I'll be taking a peek at NoRecruitingSpam.com .

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  2. Job market dynamics suck by hwstar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been unemployed for 6 months and the job market in San Diego CA for electrical engineers is the worst I've ever experienced.

    1. It's mostly recruiting companies doing the hiring. There seems to be a lack of direct company recruiting going on (At least in San Diego, CA).
    2. If it is companies doing direct hiring, they want "new college grads" at all times of the year
    3. They want master's degrees at a minimum.
    4. Thay want someone who can speak Mandarin.
    5. The list of skills required is so detailed and complex, it would be very difficult for someone to be a master of everything on that list, and one would have a terrible time maintaining any degree of focus to ensure a good result.
    6. They whine to congress about the H-1B cap.

    Fortunately for me, I have plenty of money in the bank and in investments, plus I have rental income. I'm 54, and not sure I'll ever get to be employed as an engineer again. I'm mostly keeping my self occupied with personal engineering projects and code. I'm hoping things eventually turn around, but am prepared to retire if they do not.