Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by michaelhoffman on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:15PM
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A CEO of a small company once sent me what might have been a really interesting opportunity and I was going to reply but then I noticed the tracking links and realized it was just a very-well-crafted form letter. I stopped considering it then.
Tracking pixels on emails aren't always an indication of a form letter. Marketing folks use lots of services that add tracking to all their outgoing email. (Whether that's OK or not for you is a different matter, I'm just pointing out that it could have still been an individual email.)
Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by joshuakarjala on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @02:56PM
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Keep in mind - the CEO in question could be writing personal e-mails out from an ATS / Sourcing tool that helps keep track of communications.
Tracking links are not always == shotgun approach
Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by HarryHirsch on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:33PM
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Tracking links are always extremely bad form, though. I'd be interested in hearing from the other side, though, why such behaviour would be considered acceptable.
Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by Trundle on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:07PM
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I think of acceptable behaviour in terms of a blacklist rather than a whitelist. I don't have a problem with tracking links because I don't see a reason to have a problem with tracking links.
Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by stagbeetle on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:48PM
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By tracking links do you mean custom-generated links to a certain page that reply back to some software showing that you clicked the link?
Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by city41 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:27PM
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Yes, exactly. Usually they are in the form of http://sometrackingwebsite.com/someid?nextUrl=https://youtub....
If the email shows any effort whatsoever, mentioning a project I worked on, mentioning my current job, pointing out the role in question would fit my skills and it actually does, basically anything at all that suggests it's not just a form email sent to hundreds of people, then I will reply.
However, there's a third type of recruiting email that shows the person on the other side really is directly targeting you. It usually comes from the person who would be your manager, or at least someone who has a direct stake in the company (say the CTO or CEO at a small company). These emails I take seriously and appreciate. One of these led me to my current job.
Oh and I don't appreciate recruiting emails that have tracking links in them. Usually I will politely respond that I don't appreciate the tracking.