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Number one rule (for all sales people, not just recruiters): be polite.

A remarkable percentage of recruiters can't graciously accept a politely negative response. Threatening to report me to my boss for endangering the (nonexistent) relationship with their firm was not an acceptable counter; I hung up. Ringing every nearby phone number in the hopes of finding someone to connect him to my boss was aggressively stupid.

True story.

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Upon very politely declining an offer from a recruiter on Linkedin, I was very surprised to find a response saying "send me your resume, the offer expires tonight. one day you will be on the job market again, and I will not help you". Unbelievable, I wonder why he had to go out of his way to sound like a jerk, and why he thought that would be a good idea...

Why do recruiters on Linkedin always ask for a resume, anyway? Don't they already have it?

I think they are too lazy to actually look at your profile, they just do a keyword search and then contact you directly form the search page (you can still do this on LinkedIn if memory serves me correctly), apparently, being bothered to click on your profile and read through it would take too much of their precious time

I suspect they ask for a resume so they can send it to someone else. Extracting a resume from linkedin is work (AKA an opportunity for an application or linkedin feature).

I wonder whether folks are more likely to keep their linkedin profile up to date or their resume.

Every LinkedIn profile has a "PDF" button that generates a pretty nice-looking resume representation of the profile.

There's already applications that build structured data (aka HRXML) from scraped/API-grabbed LinkedIn data.

There's a ton of automation in the recruitment industry.

Don't know how it works in the US (or your country of being), but in my country ID laws expect you have to give companies explicit permission to handle your data in the recruitment process.

There are so many people that are like this..and not just in recruiting.

I've run into so many people that don't know how to treat their customers properly and have lost me completely. It actually gives me an advantage as a business owner, because my customer service is #1.

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