For an ardent job seeker, there is nothing more infuriating than opening their inbox and seeing it filled with recruiter spam. These people don’t even mind seeing ad emails with 50% off at their favorite shoe store or the chance to enter a winning contest for a holiday in Bali. The most depressing, irritating thing is to see those recruiter spam emails. They are waiting with their heart popping out of the chest for an interview invitation or a response from a real employer…but all they can see is recruiting spam.
The main problem is that recruiting junk mail actually hinders the good chances of a reliable recruiter to reach out to candidates. Many job seekers simply ‘select all’ inbox messages and delete emails without checking them one by one…simply because recruiting spam emails seem to have bombarded their inbox. Even if there is a genuine job invite in their inbox they might easily skip it, because they had enough of spam.
Recruiting spam makes it incredibly hard for genuine recruiters to get responses from candidates. Recruiting junk mail copy so well the ‘genuine’ invitation and offers, that people don’t know what to believe, which email to answer, which recruiter to take seriously. Several experts in the field agree that recruiter spamming has become a huge problem…a problem which slowly ruins the reputation of genuine companies and genuine brands.
This type of recruiting spam is not tied to receiving emails only. These companies send you SMS text about jobs that you are not looking for. The will call to announce you about jobs you are not interested in, and they will even target you over your social media portals. From Facebook to Twitter and LinkedIn you are a hostage of spam recruit emails. The emails may not be the main issue, but the lack of attention and genuine interest in helping a candidate and company find their perfect match! Do they really think I’m qualified? Will they really care to get to know me and my skill set? Or do they just want to put a warm body in an open seat they have?
So as a job seeker how should you have confidence that you will finally get a good job, when everything resembles a huge joke? Many job seekers are almost desperate about landing a job, and receiving such recruiting spam emails will only make it worse for them. Companies should acknowledge that recruiter spam, especially in its worst form can be debilitating to the job seeker and to the entire industry itself. Many of these companies don’t do anything else than just meeting their numbers and filling their charts by forcing themselves upon desperate job seekers. Shouldn’t recruiting be a “people-friendly-service” or what?
