http://pastebin.com/n3cGvi4E<p>I haven't received a truly aggressive recruiter response in some time, so it prompted me to wonder how other people handle these sorts of approaches. I'm mostly interested in limiting the harm they'll do to anyone else in their search, as this sort of dialog doesn't bother me too much.<p>How have you all handled this effectively in the past?<p>Thanks!
Your reply was also rude. I'm not going to take sides since I dislike both.<p>PS - Including their email address (and name) but not yours seems extremely petty. Like this thread/negative exposure is effectively your way of getting back at them.
<i>"I'm mostly interested in limiting the harm they'll do to anyone else in their search"</i><p>Can you elaborate? This recruiter's email is spam, literally. Most people hit delete and move on. I'm curious where the harm is coming from.
I hang up on them after telling them that I'm not interested in talking to them.<p>Reasons include "I'm onsite, so can't talk, sorry"/"I'm about to go into a meeting"/"I'm not interested in your role"/"Please remove my details from your system"/"Stop harassing me, otherwise I'm calling the police"<p>I've only had one particularly aggressive recruiter around 2000 wanting me to work at Yahoo. I was quite happy with being at my start up and he threatened me with not working through his agency, ever. I agreed with him I'd not want to work with his agency. Hasn't affected my workload then or now. Though I was terribly paranoid about it at the time.<p>90% of my work over the past 5 years has been repeat business through prior clients once they're outside the compete clauses.
My public Linked In profile mentions in the first line that recruiters are NOT to contact me for any reason; if they do so, then I feel no remorse in responding rudely. 99% of IT-type recruiters are untalented jerks making a living from the skills of others and are too used to spamming or using dirty techniques to do their jobs.<p>That said, I can't see what you can do to 'protect' others, just delete their emails, set a spam filter appropriately and move on.
I usually just try to hammer home:<p>* What kind of work I actually do (specific skillset)<p>* What kind of work I'm actually interested in (contract, full-time, etc)<p>You're not gonna stop the recruiters...you're just not... the best you can hope for is that they start to get to know you better and bring you better / more-targeted opportunities.
Add them to the awful recruiters list:
<a href="https://github.com/soffes/awfulrecruiters.com" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/soffes/awfulrecruiters.com</a><p>Reply with a link to their pull request.
i) don't reply to spammers<p>ii) mark it as spam<p>It's obviously pushed some buttons - you replied and you started a thread here. It's probably best to just mark it as spam and ignore it.