How often do you get hounded by recruiters? Weekly? Daily? My inbox is often chock full of seemingly robotic, shallow, keyword-powered emails.
- “… we’re looking for a PHP Ninja”
- “… would you like to work on an exciting Angular/NodeJS + PHP stack?”
- “… how is your Node-fu? Because we need Java and JavaScript specialists!”
Creepily automatic and eerily persistent, recruiters tend to be able to track us down no matter how obscure and unavailable we make our emails. Email providers being pretty bad at their job in identifying and flagging such spam don’t help either.
To help with this problem, we’ve started developing a nifty new inbox-control application which hooks into email accounts via IMAP, scans the unread emails, runs them through some rules, and then auto-replies with a snarky email in case the original is found to be “recruiterish”. Check it out in this post!
In future entries, we’ll upgrade the app with some amazing features, and finally turn it into a SaaS!
What about you? What do you usually do with such emails? Ignore? Reply? Blow them off? Report for spam?