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.
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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....