I’ve been doing this manually for a number of years now. I’ve even gone as far to look up the organization’s website and find the highest ranking person I could find and then call for them, saying I’m with $company (usually mine) and then letting him have it.
The biggest abuse, in my opinion, is their adding you to a mailing list you did not request to be added to. Often, these are poorly configured, and you cannot get unsubscribed. Or, “steve” (with a decidedly Nepali accent over what is indeed an overseas connection) will tell you that YOU have to take some action to get off their list. These outfits are as shady as a payday loans outfit, IMO. I’m decreasingly using recruiters and increasingly relying on my own network any more. It’s time some of these outfits receive a bit of a punitive response for their shady activities. I queried privately whether there would be a way of getting off said list, though, to avoid a “SpamHaus” sort of situation. This is a GOOD endeavor, IMO. On May 7, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Atom Powers <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds like an interesting project. > > Do you intend to report abuse before blacklisting? I suspect that at least > some of the problems could be mitigated simply by reporting the behavior to > the appropriate manager within the recruiter's organization. And if that > doesn't help then it wouldn't be unreasonable to blacklist that entire > organization. > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > > > -- > Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. > --Atom Powers-- > _______________________________________________ > 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/
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