Having registered with various job boards and spoken to various recruitment consultants in the past, it’s no surprise that I get a few ‘job’ emails from time to time.
The vast majority of these emails are essentially spam. Despite me entering details about preferred location, experience and daily rate requirements on job websites, I often get mails that are for the wrong end of the country, junior jobs and low rates.
I just got a mail from a recruiter that contained the following text:
Dear Shane
PUT PARAGRAPH ONE HERE
PUT PARAGRAPH TWO HERE (Or delete if unneccessary)
Put PARAGRAPH THREE HERE (Or delete if unneccessary)
{Name of person removed}
Microsoft .net Consultant
{Name of agency removed}
I didn’t feel the urge to deal with somebody who needed reminding that an email can be separated into separate paragraphs, and that if it contained less than 3 paragraphs, the unneccessary (sic) paragraph helper text should be removed.
Unbelievable. Still, at least they got my name right.
March 3, 2009 at 2:07 am
This winds me up no end. I also get these all the time – I feel your pain.
Further than that tough, I actually think it’s a symptom of the online recruitment space being out of touch and falling further and further behind, as the web matures. It seems as if the online recruitment industry is still stuck back in 1999 – as your SPAM mail suggests. The experience is still very average from recruitment sites that should know better. This is especially so when you compare them to the slick experiences offered by many brands these days through the rise of the social and geographic web.
The recruitment space must try harder methinks.
March 3, 2009 at 6:17 pm
haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed
March 4, 2009 at 1:48 am
Hi ‘photoshop tutorials’ (surely that’s not your real name
– I’m currently working on a new version of the site that’ll have the RSS sorted.
Watch this space