Re:Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam
by Macha on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:52AM
(#29317768)
There are channels where I am open for contact and channels were I am not open for contact. I notice many recruiters email my github contact address to ask about stuff on my linkedin for example. I'm not sure if they've personally scraped my commits or just bought a database of "developers in Europe" to link the two together. They could use LinkedIn, or the contact email I put on my CV (including the public copy on my website, which is linked from linkedin, and then it gets categorised appropriately. But it just seems kind of cheeky to route around that, like cold sales calls.
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Re:Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam
by spacehunt on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:00AM
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Quite often, it's easier for recruiters to get at your email address from GitHub because it's increasingly difficult to scrape contact details off LinkedIn.
Re:Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam
by Macha on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:51AM
(#29319215)
That doesn't make it an acceptable reason to do so. They could probably google my home address easier than get LinkedIn to disintermediate themselves, but a barrage of recruiters at my doorstep would not be appreciated.
Re:Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam
by spacehunt on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:00AM
(#29319322)
The truth is they probably don't know. These days the process of guesstimating an email address behind a LinkedIn profile is highly automated. Very often what a recruiter see on their dashboard is basically a list of potential candidates' LinkedIn profiles, paired with a list of plausible email addresses for each of them (with no indication of how the bots got them in the first place).