[schmookeeg]

I have seen a recent uptick in body-shop recruiters reaching out with low-grade jobs. Annoyingly, this recent batch seems keen to use SMS to reach me instead of traditional Email.

I have started to put feelers out for a change of scenery, but nothing is landing yet. It feels like the first dotcom bust all over again.

[disqard]

How do you deal with this particular kind of spam? I ignore and block the number.

Curious to know what others are doing... esp. if anyone actually replied to see what these folks' "angle" is.

[schmookeeg]

My Gmail blocklist is basically a recruiter honeypot slash hatecrime since 99% of them are Indian. I have found nothing to combat it -- worse, I switched to date-coded email addresses in my CVs in 2008 (so [e-mail]) (!) and I still get spam from those old addresses.

I should block those old addresses, and that was the implicit threat on my CV coversheet, but I haven't bothered to do it yet.

It seems most of the recruiters bought my Email from dice.com, since that corresponds to when I used the earliest email addy. I'd say I'm boycotting Dice in response (and I sorta am), but I don't think dice has been relevant in an age, so it's sort of a toothless oath. :D

The SMS are pernicious and awful. I usually drop a rude remark to them before reporting them as spam. Phone interruptions are 100x more focus-destroying than emails, and I have been forced to put my phone on do-not-disturb during the workday, and I hate it. I feel victimized by these shops.