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Recruiters love to recruit PASSIVE candidates. They DO NOT want active candidates. All this is going to do is waste people's time.

If you're not interested in some recruiter, just don't reply.



The Dojo is inviting them to work with passive candidates who are members of the Dojo in a positive framework: ie, by sponsoring the Dojo and getting attention that way instead of by spamming people.


Multi-billion $ industry ripe for disruption. I have (will and continue too) take much shit with my current and past firm(s) (leaving out current employment as I must take a "this is my own opinion etc." stance), on posting to corp Yammer or Chatter pages: Please do not spam 4,000 candidates cross-state with "Django" somewhere in a profile via mass-mailing. It hurts the brand, angers candidates I work with (sometimes for a few years, or who are already working on a project), etc." All pushed through mass Chatter or Yammer, hence visible to higher ups, going "who is this Recruiter with some smattering of negativity?". /stirs the pot.

Perhaps I'm missing something with what this accomplishes (trying to understand as a Tech Recruiter (not for long however)). Majority of spams of course = a cruddy Boolean string (or worse, 1-2 key words), selecting a few hundred people and template spamming messages. Without reviewing notes or even resumes.

I imagine this is local :)

It is effective "throw crap at wall" until 2 candidates fit for a hire.

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