Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?

I have a few canned responses that I send, the majority of which are polite and grateful for them contacting me, with explanations of what type of role I'd consider.

It shuts most of them down effectively, but also keeps the door open in case they really would have an opportunity that would work for me. And over the course of a decade or two working in the same town, it built a network that I can call up when I do want work, letting me drive the process on my next search.

Delete the message and go on. There's one thing that's worse. When nobody contacts you at all.

If that can help, that's an up to date list to deal with recruiter spam from India:

{from:@lorventech. from:@amaze-systems. from:vsgbusinesssolutions: from:vbeyond.com from:@triveni. from:@epiksostaffing. from:@epikso. from:@conchtech. from:@nrconsultingservice. from:@rgtalent. from:@us.insigmainc. from:@inficaretech. from:@dgntechnologies. from:@techdigitalcorp. from:@nttdata. from:@askitc. from:@nityo. from:anuvaresource. from:execu-search. from:collabera. from:zodiac-solutions. from:amiseq.com from:vision-us.com from:devpozent.com from:dbsiservices.com from:Xoriant.Com from:croxconsulting.com from:ibusinesssolution.com from:itechsolutions.com from:edoorsinc.com from:saxonglobal.com from:erostechnologies.com from:okayainc.com from:tachyontech.com from:avantirec.com from:panzersolutions.com from:bereangroup.com from:bluegrasstek.com from:brainbeeus.com from:e-solutionsinc.com from:eateam.com from:estaffllc.com from:etalentnetwork.com from:intimeinfy.com from:kanandcorp.com from:oorwindigital.com from:resource-logistics.com from:tekleaders.com from:vdartinc.com from:quantumworld.us from:nityo.com from:futransolutions.com from:ittblazers.com}

I suggest you just don’t reply to cold emails and mark them as spam. Automated mass cold emailing is spam.

I've found that not having LinkedIn greatly reduces recruiter spam.

I often respond and tell I’m currently not interested. Legit head hunters leave me alone or ask to contact me again in a year or so (which I’m ok with. You never know when you need a new job).

Regarding the question: I don’t get many mails from recruiters. I wouldn’t invest time in setting up a block mechanism.

Here's one but not sure how up to date it is https://github.com/jasoncartwright/recruiterdomains

If in the UK (and probably most EU countries depending on what counts as business communication locally) you can at least cause them stress for their flouting of the law with minimal effort:

Make an Information Request asking how they got your personal information (email + job details) and under what legal basis they collected it.

When they inevitably reply with either LinkedIn, your work website, or some data broker make a complaint that:

1. They did not get consent from you

2. They did not inform you of the collection of your data without consent in a timely manner (through purchasing or direct collection). [Right to be informed]

3. That they are in breach of the "lawfulness" requirement of GDPR as they collected your personal information in breach of the terms/conditions of the source website (LinkedIn does not allow scraping).

When they deny all this and make some excuse about public information (which doesn't really exist), make a complaint to your local information commissioner.

If they gave a data broker, repeat the process again with them. They will remove you and pass this notification down to any other customers.

Within 6/12 months you'll be out of all the marketing lists.

I have only occasionally had trouble with recruiter spam out of the blue myself. What I really wanted last time I had to deal with them was a list of recruiters with a track record of deceptive or unprofessional behaviour so I could avoid the time wasters. I suspect the list of recruiters I'd want to block for spamming and the list I'd want to avoid for being misleading or unprofessional would have a lot of overlap.

Look for some common phrases they use (e.g., the word recruiter in their email signature) and set up a filter to mark as read and archive based on those.

Amazon does this to me.

I have been polite in saying no and lately I have been asking them to either remove me or put in a 3 year hold. They always say they will but then a week or 2 later I get another Amazon recruiter who was impressed with my resume.

Do you know if Amazon has a decentralized recruiting system or are they just disrespecting my wish?

I missed this when it was posted, but yeah, I run a list of UK recruitment spammers in Gmail filter format: https://github.com/drcongo/spammy-recruiters

This would be great. I often get re-occurring unsolicited emails as well from the recruiting side. Not sure how many times I get "Exceptional Java engineer from X FAANG" only to find out that they were a 2 month contractor and we don't even use Java in our stack.

There should be a way to redirect one recruiter's mail to the other. Redirect spam back to them.

I've told recruiters to straight up lick my butt before

I just mark them as spam and unsubscribe when they add my work email to a random subscription list I haven't been asked to.

The weird thing is that inside the EU, supposedly GDPR protects against being automatically enlisted to email subscriptions or receiving repeated emails about the same topic without your authorization (and expires every 3 years).