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You probably should develop a different attitude for you own benefit.

You are just starting out and the shit recruiter today may very well progress in their career (perhaps they are even a newbie to recruiting) and you may need them down the road.

Even if annoying, no sense to burn bridges. You can always be polite and keep the door open. Your job prospects may be good today but not in 5 or 10 years.

As far as "harassed" welcome to the world of outbound selling. If you were out of a job and were sending out resumes and contacting potential employment prospects how would you like if they said that you were "harassing" them?

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I disagree. You're anonymous to these guys, you're just another possible lead. When you're further down the road, these guys will continue to try any means to talk to you no matter what - even if you write 'Recruiters - Please don't contact me' all over your profile.

It's not a sincere relationship at all - they're just trawling through their latest LinkedIn Premium search.

This is definitely true. I don't think I burn bridges(and the statement on linkedin isn't "no recruiters pls" it's more like "I am happily employed"). I don't angrily reply or anything.

Also sure I wouldn't like it if people said I was harassing them with my resume, but I wouldn't be. These people send the same posts over and over to the same people(who, by their linkedin are clearly employed).

I have no idea if they're good at recruiting, I just don't want another job.

(and the statement on linkedin isn't "no recruiters pls" it's more like "I am happily employed")

I have no idea if they're good at recruiting, I just don't want another job.

Right now. Ten years is a long time, though. There's also a good chance you'll be a completely different person in five. And since your employer has no loyalty to you whatsoever, you may be looking for a new job in even less time.

There's no possible downside in letting recruiters email you.

"There's no possible downside in letting recruiters email you."

Totally agree. Over the years I've seen many variations of this. "serious inquiries only" used to be a staple of some classifieds back when people did classified. Essentially people that don't want to be bothered because all they are thinking about is today and what their own needs are. (Of course I don't like to be bothered either and draw the line at certain things as well in some cases of course - I guess it's just where the line is).

One thing I picked up in "this business" back in the 90's was that seemingly important people (VC's for example) wanted to talk to everybody and anybody since they never knew going forward who might be the next star out of the newbies.

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