Mass Mailing Recruiters

Not sure if anyone's noticed, but recruiters become more and more like those Viagra spammers. At least a few times a week I get e-mails from Berman Larson Kane, Algomod Technologies, some guy named G Vernekar and others. I did try to unsubscribe at least a few times, but e-mails keep coming in.

I remember a conversation I (sort of) had with one recruiter about half a year ago. He e-mailed me with the usual "we have this almost-for-you" position, I sent him my resume and almost immediately, without even talking to me he started to send me "opportunities". Now, I don't mind getting some of the e-mails as long as they are relevant to what I am looking for. But getting 5 messages in 3-hour period about the jobs in totally different sector was a bit too much. I e-mailed him asking (in somewhat harsh tone) to remove me from his spam list and never to send me anything again, since I don't feel like dealing with spammers. The guy got upset! Can you imagine a viagra spammer beinig upset because you got off his e-mail list?

There is another kind of spamming kids who have recently discovered all those job-posting web sites. They happily e-mail everyone and their mothers with some positions like commission sales agents, change-your-career-become-a-sales-associate or similar nonsense. Recently I saw a few of those from CareerBuilder and (I think) Monster.com. Not sure if it was worth the effort, but it sure wasn't worth the loss of image. These days anything that isn't personalized to me goes to Junk folder first. Not sure if I will have time to take a look at it.