Timeline for How to respond to an insistent recruiter's cold email?
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| Mar 8, 2018 at 12:05 | comment | added | delinear | Ditto, if the agent seems like they're doing their job (matching skillsets to roles) and not just bulk-mailing everyone based on keywords, or if I've had dealings with them in the past, I'll respond. Otherwise I just ignore them. No reason to be unpleasant in the majority of cases (you never know when you may need their services), but likewise they generally aren't expecting, or offended by a lack of, a response. If one of them did become aggressive/passive-aggressive, I'd add them to my junk mail list and carry on with my day. | |
| Mar 7, 2018 at 15:32 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | Recently I had one send a fake followup, quoting a message I never received (and which presumably was never sent) asking why I hadn't gotten back to them yet. Strangely I still haven't. The fake original email was reasonable enough looking that if I'd gotten it I would've sent a brief response back stating I have no desire to move cross country. (I really wish there was a way I could indicate that on linked in; would notionally allow pre-filtering about 90% of what I'm sent now.) | |
| Mar 7, 2018 at 13:30 | history | edited | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 7, 2018 at 12:26 | comment | added | Richard Tingle | If you start marking these agressive cold emailers as spam they may end up being globally marked as spam, which may alter their behaviour. [I don't suggest this for all of them, just the really troublesome ones] | |
| Mar 7, 2018 at 11:02 | comment | added | wahab | IKR, like they don't even bother spending less than a minute to actually open your resume before sending you an email. | |
| Mar 7, 2018 at 7:40 | history | answered | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |