[ascari]

While it’s a nice concept I agree it’s probably not the best fit for the use case. I also don’t understand the point of recruitment spam. What’s the purpose of sending 5 follow up emails. I find it absolutely annoying and would never respond back to an unsolicited email. Surely had they enough applicants for an appealing job, they wouldn’t have chased that much.

[dsr_]

To begin with, the average recruiter was hired in the last three months and will last three more months before looking for a new job. They have been equipped with a series of templates and told to customize them.

The goal of the recruiter is to make money by acquiring a candidate, presenting them to a company, and having the company hire them. Note that the recruiter does not actually work for the hiring company -- they have no relationship with them whatsoever, yet. The recruiter's company is paying a minimal salary with an additional fee based on the salary of the candidates who get hired through this process. A particularly scummy recruiting company pays no salary at all, and considers the recruiters to be independent contractors. The recruiter's company has someone in the back office who is manually or automatically scraping Indeed, Dice, Monster, whatever in order to get job listings.

At this point you can see that a recruiter is a speculative spammer.

[petesergeant]

> What’s the purpose of sending 5 follow up emails

because people often respond (positively) on the 4th - 5th sales email you send, even if they ignored the first, and anyone who's truly pissed off will have just marked it as spam already or blocked you.

I understand it would be better if that wasn't true, but it is true, and that's why people send automated follow-ups.