From time to time I get emails from recruiters who either have my details on record or from my publicly available profile on LinkedIn. Now I don’t have a problem with them sending me the emails. It is always the content or the lack thereof that determines whether or not I click the delete button – a number of occasions the real position might have been wonderful, but the email (which is on many occasions just a copy and paste from the actual posting) did not address the true nature of the job. Many of these job emails always seem to lack the basic information that any potential job seeker need to make a decision.
There are many recruitment companies that are very good at what they do, but I wish *all* of them would read this post by Eric Lippert of Fabulous Adventures In Coding.
Information inadequacy of job postings seems to be a problem for many software developers looking for the next interesting position. I think recruiters should be made aware of this fact. And I think I will from now on be more vocal about what I expect to see in job emails/postings.
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