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I did a similar thing with recruiting ads, I added a line of "If you are interested in this role, please reach out to me starting with 'Heyyyyyy I am XXX', thanks!" in the middle of the JD. And I simply ignore 99% of the reach out because they didn't start with that line. It's just like the brown M&m thing Van Halen did.

Works way better than I expected.

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I always read job listings top to bottom, but I would never in my life send out an email in a professional setting starting with "Heyyyyyyyy".

I don't think this idea of yours is as clever as you imagine it to be

if you were explicitly asked to, why not?

People are explicitly asked to wear masks too ...

If I could reduce the spread of a disease by starting my professional emails with "Heyyyyyyyy" I totally would.

Job ads are universally filled with jargon-y HR copy-pasta bullshit, so I’m sure most people never read them on purpose.

Instead of being clever, you’ve simply overestimated the importance of your ad in people’s lives while simultaneously optimizing for inexperienced people who’ve never read a job ad before and don’t know they are BS.

I don’t put PR bullshit in my vacancies and I write a lot of them. I respect my potential hires and expect them to respect me and at least read the damn thing. Unbelievable, right?

It's fine not to, but .. it would be interesting to read an example of two to see how they differ.

Sure, your ads might be the greatest ads ever written. But if you respected your potential hires you’d be mindful of the fact that it’s easy to get job ad fatigue since all the other company ads are filled with bullshit.

Playing king-in-the-castle with people’s lives by rejecting them over some bizarre game where you assume bad intent doesn’t sound like “respect” to me.

The job ad is around 200 words. If someone is serious about a job that they will be working on for 5 days a week, do you think it's too much to ask if I expect them to read through these words?

You've likely passed over some exceptionaly talented employees that you could have hired because of this pretentious scheme of yours.

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