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Hey {recruiter-name},

Thanks for getting in touch about the {role} at {company} you're interested in talking to me about.

Before we have a chat I'd like to know a bit about the role and the company first, take this as an initial discussion, please could you tell me.

  • What's the work-life balance?
  • Where's the office located?
  • What emphasis is on training?
  • What is the team like?

Take a look at some of my profiles:

Also if you want to know a bit more about me and what I'm after, there's also my about, on my portfolio page:

You can also find some sample projects I have in my portfolio:

I have basic security clearance with certificate 🎀.

Let me know if there's anything else on top of that you need to know.

Knowing how fast your company is growing and how many people have been employed in the last year is great to know, along with if it's a market leader in it's field or if it's a market disruptor, these are all great to know but please don't put them as the selling points for me.

For me, it's more about learning and progressing with the technology than it's about salary.

I'm based in Kent, takes me ~30 minutes to get into London - Victoria/Blackfriars.

I have little commercial experience but I'm invested in my development and passionate about working with technology.

Thanks. 👍

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Hi {recruiter-name},

I've gone to some effort to save everyone some time by maintaining a FAQ page on my prsonal site:

I've even gone so far as to change my LinkedIn profile so that it directs recruiters to read the FAQs before contacting me about opportunities. So, thank you, {recruiter-name}! By carefully ignoring all of that information, you've freed me from having to feel even remotely guilty for sending you a canned response.

If you can't be bothered to spare my profile even a few moments of actually reading what's right in front of your face, I'm pretty sure you won't bother listening to anything else I might tell you either.

Good luck with that breadth-over-depth approach. (You're gonna need it when my profession gets around to automating yours.)

Kind regards, Scott

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