About Recruiters

The waste within our profession is an amazing thing to behold. Transactional recruiters, only worried about filling "this" requisition, behave as if the resources of people and reputation were, in fact, limitless. Broadcast email lists, totaling tens of millions of names, are mercilessly beaten for results. It's always the case that my "targeted email list" is someone else's spam.

Nevertheless, any internet operation featuring community is wise to raise its eyebrows when recruiters begin to approach.

Think for a moment about last week's article on Manners. It was written to remind us all that "just because we can doesn't mean we should." It discussed the difference between good manners and working hard to find the limits so that it was possible to advertise for free.

As an industry, our reputation is pretty out there. While we argue about the nuances of privacy infringement, there's a whole class of people who think that the fact that we need to discuss it is evidence enough. We routinely tread in gray areas where many people wouldn't.

Some of it is the nature of the work. Some of it is over the top. We don't police ourselves and tend to pooh - pooh attempts to discuss the ethics of the industry.

So, it's no surprise that we aren't welcome everywhere.

I don't imagine for a second that Harry Joiner developed a rolodex of 4,200 executives in ecommerce by spamming for them. I can't imagine that a young customer service kid could be expected to tell the difference between Harry and some of his peers.

Maybe the question to be asking is how much responsibility should the industry shoulder for Harry's recent banishment?

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