So the job market is hot hot hot again (at least out here in Silicon Valley / SF) and we’re back again to the days where “talented recruiters” contact me in spite of clear statements not to, and concerning jobs with zero match on my skillset. Their own job experience shows their last job was flipping hamburgers, their skill and ethics demonstrate the same.
Likewise when I am trying to fill roles, I get contacted by recruiters and then waste valuable hours only to learn that they are submitting resumes to me without having gotten permission from the person. Total ethics fail, and a huge waste of time. These recruiters can never represent us well to employers, and could never help us fill a role. I wish we had a blacklist so that we knew who to avoid. Since the obvious response is “patches welcome”, I’m going to create that patch. I will shortly create a recruiter blacklist which I will maintain, but would happily turn over to a group who wants to take it on. Criteria for the list include: 1. Repeated contacts after being told to stop, or constant e-mail spam of job opportunities. 2. Contact through a mechanism where you indicate you don’t want to be contacted, e.g. LinkedIn profile that clearly indicates you won’t wish to be contacted about job offers. 3. Contact referencing a resume or posting which clearly indicates you don’t want to be contacted. 4. Situations where a recruiter put your resume forward to a job without your permission. This can cause an employer to reject you for an ethics violation that you didn’t not authorize. Technical outputs of this blacklist which users can subscribe to would be: 1. Domain names 2. Mail servers by IPv4 and v6 3. Individual Names including LinkedIn, Google Plus, etc profiles The first two would be available via DNS query, all of them would be available via HTTP REST interface or a web page where a search can be done. Submissions would be accepted through the web page or via HTTP REST submission only. Contact information and documentation of the ethics failure would be required for validation, but available to and used by the maintainers of the list only and never shared with anyone. I’d love to have some help with this. Respond to this message but drop the list if you’d like to work on this. I’ll post status updates about it on Twitter ‘jorhett’ and http://www.netconsonance.com/ as I roll it out. -- Jo Rhett +1 (415) 999-1798 Skype: jorhett Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
