Tell recruiters politely “no” with a simple link
no-thank-you.de
no-thank-you.de
Of course some people with tons of skills will be easier to place than others, hence recruiters will push harder.
Well, in my experience the people asking me if I am interested are rather rude. I politely explain to them that I am not interested and a lot of follow-up questions come flying in. Why is that?
That is why created the page, I answer now:
> Thank you very much for your message.
> I am not interested, before you answer me again please have a look at https://no-thank-you.de/.
> Best, <name>
Even better would be a mechanism that cost recruiters actual $$$ for spamming people whose profiles clearly indicate they're unsuited for the job or unwilling to relocate to the job's location.
[1]: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/2009/09/...
I have only once—once!—received a cold-call (well, email) from a recruiter that was in any way relevant to me as a person and a professional. And I still didn't want it. That's a pretty shitty track record.
The recruiters that annoy me are the ones who blatantly send me copy and pasted messages while clearly just having done a keyword search (and certainly not reading the parts about what I’m not interested in), who go quiet as soon as I ask for specific information (or make it clear that I expect a sufficiently large benefits package over what I have to make it worth my while), who don’t pay attention to my location but require me to work on site. Basically the ones who are wasting my time and are rude to me. Those people can go f themselves.
I have had a few, rare, great interactions with recruiters who seemed to genuinely care about placing good candidates in good companies in positions that the candidate is well suited to. Unfortunately for every one of those I’ve interacted with, I get 50 messages from the ”hey I have a lowish paying role doing something you specifically said you didn’t want to do” recruiters.
I would type '#no' and would be done.
Disclosure: I work for Streak.
I always try to leave recruiters with a positive impression, so as to not burn future bridges.
...except Herman Search. Every single recruiter has approached me flashing large salary numbers for boring, stressful sounding financial tech jobs, and being pushy/downright aggressive when I don’t show interest. I’ve asked every recruiter to put me on their do not contact list, but still, every couple of months, I get another generic male white frat bro recruiter, new to the company, reaching out again with the exact same tact. It toes the line between unprofessional and confrontational. With all due respect, which is none, fuck Herman Search.
I'll also add the link to my social media profiles (linked.in and xing).
It is a rather simple page, you are welcome to contribute translations [0].
I've had a much better experience and indeed received offers when applying to an ad or application posted on Indeed, Linkedin, Angel.co or the company website.
And what is worse is that if an employee isn't motivated enough to spend maybe 30 minutes per day sending out some targeted info about themselves to companies that really could use their labor, then I don't think that employee is going to be motivated enough to do a really good job once they're in the seat.
A corporation can afford to pay 125-150k per year plus lots of capex/opex benefits. Maybe the employee is motivated and is a "rockstar" and does a great job, too.
But a startup hiring 10-15 people per year really needs to get it right every single time, and more often than not, motivation is more important than raw skill.
Just my opinions :)
The phone screen always goes just peachy. "Wow, this is great. Awesome experience. You sound great on the phone. We would love to have you come in."
Then you either get rejected after the first round, ghosted after the third round, or shockingly they give you an offer and then after the first month "it isn't working out".
Interviewers are either way too candy-coated or way too curt.
Maybe this is just my experience, but I have over 8 years of legitimate professional experience in this industry and have been employed at megacorps and 20 person companies alike.
I got so sick of the charade that I currently work for an oil company!! Go figure.
From my experience it’s the opposite. Recruiters try to get you the highest salary they can because then they get a bigger cut. More than one of them has told me this.
There have been a couple times when I’ve told them my desired salary and they’ve upped it by 40% or more.
Yes, there are scummy recruiters out there, but for the most part I think recruiters are great. It’s like having an agent!
People in other fields don’t get this experience and they have to work harder to find a job. I’m not talking about technical interviews, but just getting your foot in the door.
I do agree that it very much feels like having an agent. I tell him what I can do, and what I want to make, and he goes out and find a job for me. I don't mind him taking a cut, if he finds jobs that I wouldn't find because I just go starry eyed from startup to startup.
That’s how they get you
I don't have this problem with recruiters, but I do have it with people seeking investments. I just have a stock reply: "Thank you for the opportunity, but I'm not doing any investing at the moment."
I downloaded the JSON document they had on me and it was pretty accurate. Again, public information so nothing surprising.
I opted out anyway
(Passive Aggression as a Service.)
suggestion for potential area of improvement: please provide detailed installation instructions (or a docker image)