Posted on October 2, 2007 at 1:05 pm | 
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I was inspired to write this post after reading about a recent spam attack by Monster. In fact, it wasn’t the attack that annoyed me, it was the response given by John Burns, Monster’s Business Development Manager in Ireland.
John Burns’ response to a disgruntled recipient should have been an apology. Instead, he stupidly wrote
These email addresses are part of a networking list from www.itcork.ie and are all available for everyone to see.
I do appreciate your concern chris, (i will keep my eye out for the bloggers!!!)
This is a guy who clearly doesn’t understand the data protection act. He also doesn’t understand that what he did was simply bad practice and dumb.
I regularly get spam from recruitment agencies. It doesn’t actually bother me but it does add weight to my argument for not using them. I’ve got vast experience on both sides of the fence in terms of being a client and candidate. Generally speaking (in my experience) they’re unprofessional and back stabbing at best. On the rare occasion, I ran into a great bunch of people such as those at PriceJamieson, but this doesn’t happen often.
Disclaimer Ann Jamieson is the founder of PriceJamieson and is a member BIMA’s Advisory Committee, which I Chair. This in no way had any influence on my tone used throughout this blog post.
So, if you work for a recruitment agency and come by this site to harvest contact details, don’t bother because you’ll only end up in the bin where you belong.
Origin Tom Raftery’s blog.
2 Comments
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October 2, 2007 @ 
Paul Walsh
That’s classic. I didn’t know we had such idiots left who didn’t realise how to engage with blogs, let alone think they have a legal standing.
Wow, they really are stupid - I’d love nothing more than some kind of legal correspondence from them.