Thread: Email extractor

Scraping email addresses is a really bad idea. Don't do it

Why would u do this, just go to the top 15 job sites daily ???

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Hi

Thanks for the feedback. But I think some of you are missing the point. Jobs Rapido and the like are not great they pull out of date info all the time and from wrong geographical locations. I already have alerts with jobsites...

Nobody has said why not use scrapers.

In the past I have used the old fashioned way of cold calling companies in targeted industries eg want a part time job in a bar visit all bars in your area, want a job as an estate agent cut out their newspaper ads send a letter. (this has worked for me before)

Today we have email, nobody writes or phones for jobs.

Last year, I spent an hour a day (30 days) building a database of TEFL schools (in Malaga Spain where I live) manually searching for contact details, it was very hard work and nobody could afford time or money to call/write all the potential leads that came up.

With my email contact list I was able to find work

It is a number game, but it is not spamming, it´s targeted which is why I need a good filter. I do not want to apply for a job in Madrid when I live in Malaga. I don’t want to send an email to Bob in accounts as this is a waste of my time (and will p..s him off).

The more doors you knock on the better chance you have of finding a job, sometimes the best jobs are not advertised.