Headhunting fun…

So, after I received a mail from a Headhunter at Microsoft some time ago, I now also got one from an Talent Acquisition at Sun Microsystems. He didn’t wrote me an E-Mail because he found my E-Mail address in some source-codes he looked up on the internet, like Microsoft did. Instead he added me as a Xing contact and entered as reason that Sun is searching for IT Specialist for all kind of software engineering positions. He asked me to add him as contact and to send him my CV.

Okay, so actually this kind of stuff is nice. It makes me glad to see that the work I’m doing in OpenSource really benefits to myself in a way. Though, I don’t really like the way this whole Headhunting thing is being performed. Sometimes I even feel a bit insulted by the texts I receive, because they are all looking pretty much like they would be automatically generated by some tool and sent to me plus one thousand other people. When I receive such a mail I at least expect to know why the guy’s writing me? Where did he got the information about me and what’s his reason for offering me a job possibility? Because the first thing I’m thinking when receiving such mails is “oh crap, spam again…” – it just looks like every other mass-mail, what makes it pretty senseless. I personally would like to know whether I have been getting that mail because I did/have something they are interessted in or just because I “might have a nice CV and knowledge that could be useful to them”. The point is, that I’m not a fan of sending my CV through the whole internet for nothing – if I would want to do that I would apply myself for a job at these companies.

However, I think that these Headhunting people would have more success if they would inform themselves a bit more about their targets and maybe would personalize their request. But still, it’s always fun to read these kind of E-Mails, heh.