Fighting the Recruiter Scourge

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?

Hmm I guess I’m doing something wrong (or right?), I don’t get any :wink:

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I don’t get any either.

Well, actually I do, but they are in my Trash box.

I have had a Hotmail account for decades.

I have it configured so that everything that I haven’t explicitly whitelisted goes to Trash.

It means that sometimes I need to go through Trash to hunt down an email and OK it. But this has worked well for me for a good many years now.

They hunt me down through my LinkedIn Account, and some even have the audacity to ask me to add them to my connections. I just send them all to my email trash.

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