Show HN: My reply to LinkedIn recruiters

Are recruiters that big of an issue for you guys?<p>I do not get that many emails&#x2F;contacts from recruiters, and I find a quick polite email exchange or one phone call allows to quickly clarify the situation and we&#x27;re done.<p>I actually welcome recruiters contacting me, it keeps me in the loop of what&#x27;s going, market rate etc... and sometime help me finding new gigs.<p>EDIT: It seems that where you are located makes a big difference. I get a few emails a week, almost zero spam. People in the bay area reports dozen of emails a day from robots based on keywords, that would indeed be frustrating.

Recent exchange I had with a recruiter over email:<p><i>Recruiter:</i> I found your email on LinkedIn and I have a few Java positions you might be interested in. Would you be interested in &lt;blah blah blah&gt;<p><i>Me:</i> I don&#x27;t have a LinkedIn account. How did you actually find my info?<p><i>Recruiter:</i> It was in a database we share with a few other recruitment agencies.<p><i>Me:</i> Could you remove me from the database?<p><i>Recruiter:</i> Okay, you have been removed from the database.<p><i>Me:</i> Since we both know you didn&#x27;t delete it, you at least update it to say I&#x27;m interested in Python jobs? I haven&#x27;t worked in Java in 5 years and have no interest in going back.<p><i>Recruiter:</i> Okay, I&#x27;ve added Python to your languages.<p><i>Me:</i> But you didn&#x27;t remove me from the database and you didn&#x27;t remove Java from my languages?<p><i>Recruiter:</i> I&#x27;m not authorized to remove data from the database.<p><i>Me:</i> So you lied about where you got my info and you lied about deleting my data from your database?<p>I like to think that after this he had a revelation and switched careers, but more likely he moved on to prey on another sucker.<p>EDIT: This was from a new recruitment address. Most recruitment emails I receive get filtered and receive an automated response telling them politely that I&#x27;m not interested in their services.

Recruiter here, and I&#x27;d welcome this type of response. I&#x27;d much prefer to reach out to someone via email address than LinkedIn, but when I can&#x27;t find an address (it happens) it means a LinkedIn invite that has severe character limits. All you can usually fit is a quick intro and &quot;are you interested in discussing a job doing...&quot; type stuff.<p>This response gives the recruiter an opportunity to present a fairly decent pitch, while giving the recipient the ability to screen a more complete pitch instead of a truncated note.

I&#x27;m not keen on Typeform&#x27;s scrolling form presentation. When I&#x27;m filling in a form I like to have a mental map of where I am, whereas this feels like stumbling through fog.

Mine: &quot;The next time a recruiter pings you, ask them how much you&#x27;re worth.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@calcsam&#x2F;the-next-time-a-recruiter-pings-you-ask-them-how-much-youre-worth-1897ec95eb41" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@calcsam&#x2F;the-next-time-a-recruiter-pings-...</a>

I usually just tell recruiter[N] that I&#x27;m not interested but I know a great developer, recruiter[N-1], who is a perfect candidate.

I had one track down the phone number for my employer, call here, and ask the secretary to speak with me while refusing to say what the reason was until he spoke with me.

&quot;What&#x27;s wrong with this country? Can&#x27;t a man walk down the street without being offered a job!?&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;TheSimpsons&#x2F;1Oz75R0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;TheSimpsons&#x2F;1Oz75R0</a>

This is hilarious. Well done. I hate how everything in recruitment becomes all about filling in forms. Its ludicrous. Bravo

How many have you sent this to? What&#x27;s the conversion rate? ;)

Brilliant, well done! Sure to screen out the Bozos from people who may really want to talk with you. The good recruiters will get it.<p>Might suggest a sub-section under Job Description-- who does this role report to? (Give me their name).

This is absolutely brilliant. The thing is, how do you actually reply the recruiters with the link? Surely it would be rather rude to simply reply a solicitation with a &#x27;please check this link&#x27;.

I talk right back to them. I&#x27;m not looking for a new job, but I do have former employees and friends and if I think they&#x27;re qualified, I try to get the recruiter and my colleague together.

Many commenters are talking about how they handle&#x2F;manage this, generally by replying to the recruiter in some fashion.<p>Consider that you have no societal&#x2F;politeness obligation to reply to any sales (and recruiting is sales) email, ever. You can just ignore&#x2F;filter with abandon.<p>These folks are eating up your most precious resource - your time.

What did you use to build it and how does it notify you of the submission?<p>and , curious how many recruiters go through this?

This is pretty awesome, I don&#x27;t know what it is but I&#x27;ve been getting more aggressive recruiters actually calling me. One even called the office of my recent new job! Huge wtf; I&#x27;m a dev I like automation, don&#x27;t <i>call</i>.

What is it in the linked page that makes the page fail to show any text when javascript is blocked? and why is this being done?<p>srs.

This should be a service.

man, I want to fork for my personal use!

Regarding your choice of fields:<p>1. Name - This is already in emails I get from recruiters<p>2. Email - Useful since LinkedIn emails typically don&#x27;t include their actual email<p>3. Phone Number - Ditto to #1; they typically include it<p>4. How did you find me - Considering you stated this is in reply to LinkedIn recruiters; LinkedIn?? ...<p>5. Name of the company - Most recruiters will not share this information until you have gone through the process more. What is to stop you from ignoring them and contacting companies directly once they give this? This is a poor choice and will drive away recruiters. I do see this is not a required field, but that is not obvious at first glance.<p>6. Location - You should consider converting this into a zipcode lookup or something. If not generic information such as state or city may be entered here. ( or possibly nothing&#x2F;bogus info )<p>7. Job title - Often recruiters have multiple positions available depending on your experience and fit. Also job title doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean anything. Half of the jobs I have had had no job title.<p>8. Job description - This is usually provided in the email I get from recruiters. That said, sometimes they don&#x27;t so I can see the use. You might consider adding &quot;Required skills&quot; as a question also.<p>9. Yearly salary before taxes - This is a required field. If I were a recruiter I would ignore you at this point. You should be more interested in the opportunity not the exact pay. This looks like a money grab. Having a good career is more important than a dollar figure. Better than this would be a set of ranges; then you can ignore all requests in the ranges you would not accept. Gets you similar info but avoids the insult.