Take the recruitment as flattery. If you're not interested, delete it and move on. Better yet, forward it to someone who might be interested.
Take the recruitment as flattery. If you're not interested, delete it and move on. Better yet, forward it to someone who might be interested.
(But it is still good to treat people considering you as a job prospect as flattery.)
I think this is the part that bothers me most. If a headhunter contacts me, why am I not given the inside-track for the interview?
I'm too young to remember the post-dot-com years, but those weren't a walk in the park either (to put it very mildly).
Also, LinkedIn wasn't all that popular, there was no Hacker News, there was no Twitter, Facebook, etc., meetup didn't have organizers (so often it was just a collection of people showing up at a restaurant and chatting about some subject.)
Totally a first-world problem.
I share feedback with recruiters because I want feedback as an engineer. If they choose to ignore it... well, I'll have to find some way to deal with people trying to give me a job, I guess. Woe.