<story><title>Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters</title><url>http://www.yegor256.com/2017/02/21/say-no-to-google-recruiters.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwhalen</author><text>I take it one step further: the email address on my resume is a black hole.  Its only purpose is to feed an autoresponder who kicks back a warm, generic, email thanking the recruiter for their time, acknowledging they have a difficult job, and lays out my requirements for any position: what I am and am not interested in doing, my salary&amp;#x2F;hourly&amp;#x2F;per-project requirements, my location requirements (100% remote), etc.  At the bottom, there&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;another&lt;/i&gt; email alias along the lines of &amp;#x27;yesireallydidreadthisgiganticemail2017@mydomain.com&amp;#x27; that goes straight to me.  I ask the recruiters to not email that address unless they&amp;#x27;ve read the whole thing, and their position matches my requirements.  I get 200+ emails to the catch-all autoresponder a month, and maybe 1 (qualified!) reply to the &amp;#x27;its really me&amp;#x27; alias every six months.  About once a month, I get an email to the &amp;#x27;its really me&amp;#x27; alias from a recruiter expressing joy, amusement, and thanks for spelling out what I&amp;#x27;m looking for so early in the process.  All in all, it&amp;#x27;s a far more pleasant way to go about passively searching for The Next Big Role(tm).</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Unlike most of HN (it seems), I like hearing from recruiters, because despite the very low signal-to-noise ratio, there&amp;#x27;s always that remote chance that one of them could be able to set me up with a &amp;quot;dream job&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s zero cost to me to politely reply to a recruiter and ask for more info, and I try to at least respond to everyone. What I&amp;#x27;ve found is that they must have a lot of candidates they&amp;#x27;re juggling because falling out of the funnel is surprisingly easy!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s amazing how often &amp;quot;Hey, thanks for reaching out, I&amp;#x27;m interested. Can you tell me more about the role?&amp;quot; results in the conversation ending right away. Probably over 50% recruiters that contact me do not reply back after that very polite and neutral response.&lt;p&gt;Many who do keep the conversation going have not read my profile or resume carefully, so I&amp;#x27;ll give them a summary of the types of work I&amp;#x27;m actually interested in, which is never what they contact me for, and politely decline to move forward with the (usually way too junior) role they are looking to fill. That will almost always end the engagement.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it&amp;#x27;s a lot of noise, but filtering is very cheap: the time it takes to reply back. My actual success rate with recruiters probably pretty average. Of the eight or so jobs I&amp;#x27;ve had in my ~20 year career, about three were obtained through recruiters, two times through in-house staff, once through an external recruiter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>Have you ever actually got a job that you accepted through this method? Also, what wizardry did you use to get 200+ recruiter E-mails a month? Do you just have a highly optimized resume out there on all the job sites or something?</text></comment>
<story><title>Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters</title><url>http://www.yegor256.com/2017/02/21/say-no-to-google-recruiters.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwhalen</author><text>I take it one step further: the email address on my resume is a black hole.  Its only purpose is to feed an autoresponder who kicks back a warm, generic, email thanking the recruiter for their time, acknowledging they have a difficult job, and lays out my requirements for any position: what I am and am not interested in doing, my salary&amp;#x2F;hourly&amp;#x2F;per-project requirements, my location requirements (100% remote), etc.  At the bottom, there&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;another&lt;/i&gt; email alias along the lines of &amp;#x27;yesireallydidreadthisgiganticemail2017@mydomain.com&amp;#x27; that goes straight to me.  I ask the recruiters to not email that address unless they&amp;#x27;ve read the whole thing, and their position matches my requirements.  I get 200+ emails to the catch-all autoresponder a month, and maybe 1 (qualified!) reply to the &amp;#x27;its really me&amp;#x27; alias every six months.  About once a month, I get an email to the &amp;#x27;its really me&amp;#x27; alias from a recruiter expressing joy, amusement, and thanks for spelling out what I&amp;#x27;m looking for so early in the process.  All in all, it&amp;#x27;s a far more pleasant way to go about passively searching for The Next Big Role(tm).</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Unlike most of HN (it seems), I like hearing from recruiters, because despite the very low signal-to-noise ratio, there&amp;#x27;s always that remote chance that one of them could be able to set me up with a &amp;quot;dream job&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s zero cost to me to politely reply to a recruiter and ask for more info, and I try to at least respond to everyone. What I&amp;#x27;ve found is that they must have a lot of candidates they&amp;#x27;re juggling because falling out of the funnel is surprisingly easy!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s amazing how often &amp;quot;Hey, thanks for reaching out, I&amp;#x27;m interested. Can you tell me more about the role?&amp;quot; results in the conversation ending right away. Probably over 50% recruiters that contact me do not reply back after that very polite and neutral response.&lt;p&gt;Many who do keep the conversation going have not read my profile or resume carefully, so I&amp;#x27;ll give them a summary of the types of work I&amp;#x27;m actually interested in, which is never what they contact me for, and politely decline to move forward with the (usually way too junior) role they are looking to fill. That will almost always end the engagement.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it&amp;#x27;s a lot of noise, but filtering is very cheap: the time it takes to reply back. My actual success rate with recruiters probably pretty average. Of the eight or so jobs I&amp;#x27;ve had in my ~20 year career, about three were obtained through recruiters, two times through in-house staff, once through an external recruiter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chadgeidel</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d pay at least a few dollars per month &amp;#x2F; tens of dollars per year for this service.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not kidding. Dear HN reader, please steal this idea!</text></comment>