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Comment by jwmoz | Hacker News Reader

Sounds like you have the same experience with recruiters as I do!

I wish linkedin would allow you to add this stuff to your profile. Ideally the search/spam feature of linkedin that recruiters use, would have to pass your filter before getting sent to you. This way if you get notified at least it passed your filter and you would be OK with it.

That would be a feature I would pay for.

I put it right in my summary if I'm getting nagged a lot. Just a notice saying for recruiters to not contact me that way our time is not wasted.

A link to a post like yours would be the perfect response for emails such as:

"Hi James

Please contact me asap or I can call you ??

I'd like to discuss a PHP contract role your perfect for

Speak soon"

Yeah, I'm hoping it will save me some time. Now I can just send them this link each time I get a message, and if they bother following the link, doing as I say, and writing back then I know they are at least serious and not just fishing.

OP, why bother replying to posts where the recruiter clearly didn't read your profile at all? It's a nice gesture, but the sender is creating work for you by being lazy and off target. An offline version might be responding to junk mail with a note about what you'd really like to buy.

Are you replying on the off chance the spammer is sitting on a cushy job order they haven't mentioned?

I mark-as-read without reading unless I'm actively looking. So why do you open them?

Adding a criteria filter is also a feature I'd pay for. Great Idea.

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