Between May 2001 and February 2005, the depth of the most recent technology industry collapse, I worked sporadically at best. I sent my résumé to no less than 50 potential openings each week. For the first 6 months or so, I was sending it out at a rate of 50-100 per day. Throughout that period, I was lucky to even get one reply per month.
Now that the industry is turning around again, the slimy fuckers are coming out of the woodwork. I receive no less than 15 unsolicited emails per day from headhunters that clearly have not even read my résumé or profile information.
I have resolved to boycott any agencies that send "opportunities" to me that have clearly not even glanced at my CV. I'm in the process of compiling a list which I will probably initially post here. However, I would prefer not to do anything to increase search engine ranking for these unethical dirtbags, so posting here might be out of the question. Maybe just drop it somewhere with a robots.txt directive, or maybe as an image. Who knows, it might become a useful app if it looks like other people will want to submit entries as well. I'm wary of doing that though... the potential for abuse is high.
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