Lots of recruiters use poorly-written software that extracts email addresses and keywords from resumes and blasts out trial balloon job offers. There's a good chance the jobs themselves don't even exist - if you are in the market for a job and it's a close match to what you want, you'll reply and then a human will get involved and maybe send you some real offers.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Brian Lavender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brie.com">brian@brie.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The strange thing is I just got a different email from different recruiter<br>
of theirs with a "Dear Consultant," at the top for the same gig. If they<br>
are legit, they are searching for someone for a Gig in San Francisco for<br>
a Sys admin. I had this happen with a different company out of Chicago<br>
advertising for jobs in Minnesota. I would get three generic emails from<br>
three different recruiters.<br>
<br>
And to answer Micah, there is a phone. I could have looked a little closer.<br>
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brian<br>
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:15:34PM -0700, Eric Rasmussen wrote:<br>
> The sad thing is some legitimate websites are so full of meaningless<br>
> buzzwords that they're hard to distinguish from bogus sites. But in<br>
> this case it looks like they've had that domain registered since 2007<br>
> and have multiple listings across multiple employment sites, so I'm<br>
> guessing they're an actual company, just engaging in questionable<br>
> email practices.<br>
><br>
> -Eric<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Micah Cowan <<a href="mailto:micah@cowan.name">micah@cowan.name</a>> wrote:<br>
> > (11/02/2011 12:44 PM), Brian Lavender wrote:<br>
> >> I received what appears a bogus recruiting email from the following site.<br>
> >> <a href="http://www.itbrainiac.com" target="_blank">http://www.itbrainiac.com</a><br>
> >><br>
> >> If you look at the website, it has no phone contact, names and appears to<br>
> >> be.... bogus.<br>
> ><br>
> > No phone contact? What about at<br>
> > <a href="http://www.itbrainiac.com/contact_us.html" target="_blank">http://www.itbrainiac.com/contact_us.html</a> (via the "Contact Us" tab)?<br>
> ><br>
> > It doesn't strike me as all that unusual for names to be absent from a<br>
> > website... is there anything in particular that makes you think this is<br>
> > a bogus company? I don't see anything that strikes me as particularly<br>
> > odd (cursory look). Except that they don't seem to be in <a href="http://whitepages.com" target="_blank">whitepages.com</a><br>
> > (but the number from their website maps to a NY, NY landline, matching<br>
> > their contact address).<br>
> ><br>
> >> The email doesn't address me and just lists the position.<br>
> ><br>
> > Is that unusual for recruiters? I get that sort of unsolicited (but<br>
> > apparently career-relevant), generic job offer all the time. All the<br>
> > less surprising if you consider they probably blast the mail to a<br>
> > prepared list of potentially-interested email addresses (culled from<br>
> > resumes?)<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > Micah J. Cowan<br>
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