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Dear Recruiters and Headhunters,

Many of you are discovering the miracle of e-mail and the over-hyped ZoomInfo.com site. To anyone looking to hire a person in a web-related field (or I daresay any IT-related field), a friendly tip: stop using ZoomInfo. It’s great that you’ve found us, we’re flattered you’re interested in our skills. However, it is insulting to our intelligence and all that we work towards on a daily basis to receive a spammy-looking e-mail that screams Delete Me! at a glance.

If you truly desire a high-quality web/software/IT worker to take your offers seriously, stop using these tacky methods to gain our attention. I, for one, do not appreciate unsolicited job offers landing in my work inbox. Do you know the implications it carries? I refuse to believe recruiters have a perverse intention to purposely get a prospect fired. Certainly others would agree with me: you can establish rapport with more dignity.

Here are my suggestions:

1. Stop using ZoomInfo. Right now. That addiction doesn’t apply here.
2. Try a better job board or use a better company: quality makes us stand up and take notice.
3. If contact is via e-mail, craft a better message than the canned garbage ZoomInfo spouts.

Many of my peers are looking for better jobs or a career move. From my limited experience with headhunters, they have been annoyingly off the mark with their current attempts. If you want to be the next premier company asked to write a guest article about your successful recruiting techniques, try these three simple steps.