recruiter-autoresponse
Based on the Medium Article entitled - "Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never ignore a recruiter" this repo has a copyable script which you can use to auto-respond to recruiters.
This is licensed under MIT so please feel free to fork and use as you'd like.
If you like it, please consider leaving a github star. I think that it would be super cool to see how many people this helps.
request more info
Thanks so much for reaching out. I'm always interested in hearing about what new and exciting opportunities are out there. As a person working in tech, I'm sure you can imagine that I get a very high volume of recruiters reaching out on LinkedIn and other sources. It is a wonderful position of privilege to be in and I'm thankful for it.
It does however mean that I don't have the time to hop on a call with everyone who reaches out. A lot of the time, incoming messages represent a very poor fit indeed.
I would love to continue the conversation, but before I do, I'd like to level set around the level of seniority that you're looking for.
Can you send along the company name, a job description and, total compensation details for the role you're reaching out in reference to?
While I very much appreciate the fact that exceptionally talented and engaged recruiters reach out consistently, sorting serious and high quality opportunities from spam would be a full time job without an autoresponder.
In the absence of detailed information regarding the nature of the opportunity in question, I will be unavailable for further discussion.
Thanks again for reaching out!
I look forward to hearing from you.
Teba..
reject - QA offers
Thanks so much for reaching out. I'm always interested in hearing about what new and exciting opportunities are out there. As a person working in tech, I'm sure you can imagine that I get a very high volume of recruiters reaching out on LinkedIn and other sources. It is a wonderful position of privilege to be in and I'm thankful for it.
It does however mean that I don't have the time to hop on a call with everyone who reaches out. A lot of the time, incoming messages represent a very poor fit indeed.
I would love to continue the conversation, but I moved to an Engineering Manager position some time ago and I'm not interested in QA/SDET related positions anymore.
While I very much appreciate the fact that exceptionally talented and engaged recruiters reach out consistently, sorting serious and high quality opportunities from spam would be a full time job without an autoresponder.
Thanks again for reaching out!
Teba
reject - unwanted industries
Thanks so much for reaching out. I'm always interested in hearing about what new and exciting opportunities are out there. As a person working in tech, I'm sure you can imagine that I get a very high volume of recruiters reaching out on LinkedIn and other sources. It is a wonderful position of privilege to be in and I'm thankful for it.
It does however mean that I don't have the time to hop on a call with everyone who reaches out. A lot of the time, incoming messages represent a very poor fit indeed.
I would love to continue the conversation, but unfortunately I'm not interested in working in that industry.
While I very much appreciate the fact that exceptionally talented and engaged recruiters reach out consistently, sorting serious and high quality opportunities from spam would be a full time job without an autoresponder.
Thanks again for reaching out!
Teba..
reject - generic
Thanks so much for reaching out. I'm always interested in hearing about what new and exciting opportunities are out there. As a person working in tech, I'm sure you can imagine that I get a very high volume of recruiters reaching out on LinkedIn and other sources. It is a wonderful position of privilege to be in and I'm thankful for it.
It does however mean that I don't have the time to hop on a call with everyone who reaches out. A lot of the time, incoming messages represent a very poor fit indeed.
Unfortunately, I’m not interested in the position at the moment.
While I very much appreciate the fact that exceptionally talented and engaged recruiters reach out consistently, sorting serious and high quality opportunities from spam would be a full time job without an autoresponder.
Thanks again for reaching out and let's keep in touch!
Teba..
follow up - current salary question
I've been thinking about the compensation question. Reasonably speaking there are way too many unknowns at this point in time for me to really have a sense for how much it would take for me to leave my current employer.
This is a really exciting sounding opportunity and I'm definitely intrigued, but I still think I'd need to know more before I gave an absolute number.
Factors like culture, tech stack, growth potential, and responsibilities will all play a pretty major role in what it would take to sell me on the job.
I'm happy to continue the conversation if they're willing to speak to me.
Teba..
follow up - reject
I very much appreciate the fact that you sent the requested details.
But unfortunately I’m not interested in the position at the moment.
Thanks again for reaching out and let's keep in touch!
Teba..