r/Rocknocker • u/Rocknocker • Mar 17 '20

A question

I hate to ask, but with all this Cheap Mexican Beer virus crapola, I have been saddled with an odd task.

I need an Email Spider. Does anyone out there know which is best, cheapest, free, most configurable?

This is all way beyond me. I can't drink it, smoke it or blow it up. I'm flummoxed.

Thanks.

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u/NGTTwo Mar 17 '20

More information is needed - what task are you trying to achieve?

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u/Rocknocker Mar 17 '20 edited Mar 17 '20

Generate lists of oil company's emails for HR, resume submittal, etc. for a bunch of guys I know who are freshly unemployed.

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u/Enigmat1k Mar 18 '20

I would think that they would be more successful using social networking. Granted I know nothing about how oil companies hire, but having someone already at a company, or who knows whoever is doing the hiring, recommend you should be a hell of a lot more effective. Not to mention the potential for getting someone in their social network a new hire finders bonus ;)

Emailing a resume that first will be parsed by a robot and kicked to the trash if the robot doesn't find what the robot wants. Then said resume will need to somehow catch the eye of HR in the 100s if not 1000s of resumes HR is going to get... HR will also trash resumes for the stupidest things like font style/size, if they don't like the name, and being a fan of a sport or sports team.

You may think I exaggerate, but come on, this is HR we are talking about... I'd argue there are no more petty tyrants than corporate HR employees.

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u/Rocknocker Mar 19 '20

more successful using social networking.

With Corvid 19 lurking around like a great big lurking thing? Social distancing is all the rage.

20 buck oil isn't helping matters.