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Striking Back At Recruiter Spam

87 pointsby loganfrederickalmost 11 years ago

10 comments

vcherubinialmost 11 years ago
I rather like Atlassian&#x27;s take on the issue: <a href="https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/recruiters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlassian.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;careers&#x2F;recruiters</a>
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mfkpalmost 11 years ago
Called the number - surprisingly real sounding, nice execution.<p>Still, seems like a jerk-move. I can see this backfiring in some way or another.
jackowayedalmost 11 years ago
I hope they&#x27;re keeping statistics on how long people are on the line before hanging up.
neil_salmost 11 years ago
Is that a fixed recording of someone reading out 5 random job descriptions, or are you dynamically getting 5 fresh descriptions and using text-to-voice? Its probably the former, but if not, that is amazing text-to-voice, and I&#x27;d love to know where its available!
Varlskialmost 11 years ago
As much as i agree that recruiters can be annoying getting the right recruitment&#x2F;recruiter help can be the most amazing leverage tool for your startup and to be honest this comes across really childish. That said recruitment is ripe for disruption.
nsxwolfalmost 11 years ago
I admire the execution of this and simultaneously condemn it for its douchebaggery.
Pxtlalmost 11 years ago
If legal, they should make recordings of the reactions.
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ianstallingsalmost 11 years ago
This is a waste of time and money.
benihanaalmost 11 years ago
This makes me sad. It&#x27;s petty vindictiveness and it doesn&#x27;t help our industry. Rather than accepting that recruiters have wasted his time, and moving on, the author decides to waste even more time to get back at them. And for what? Does anyone think that the recruiter who wasted the author&#x27;s time is going to reflect deeply on this and change his ways?<p>Rather than striking back with some ego-stroking revenge, maybe educating the recruiter on why his behavior was shitty might help more? Maybe making a general page that you could easily refer him to that explains why his tactics are disrespectful so that he can <i>learn</i> from this, rather than just having his time wasted? You could also refer other pushy recruiters to that page.<p>This isn&#x27;t my company though, so the author is free to do what he wants. I&#x27;m wondering if people look at this and think &quot;that&#x27;s awesome, I can relate! I want to work there,&quot; or if they look at this and think &quot;that guy has no problem spending time being mean to people he thinks deserve it, I might stay away.&quot;
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ryguytilidiealmost 11 years ago
&quot;Ughhhhhhhhhh people keep emailing me to offer high paying jobs and I have to click archive.&quot;-The most first world problem in the history of the universe.
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