I hate headhunters.

Ok, I can't say I hate headhunters because when you actually do need a job, they can occasionally be useful. However, I feel like LinkedIn is just promoting daily unnecessary contact with recruiters and there needs to be some type of polite profile option where you can select that you are "currently not interested in speaking to unknowns."

Here are excerpts from a recruiter email I received today via LinkedIn:

Recruiter X: Your educational background is SO impressive. It reminded me of a real talent who I couldn’t help many years ago.

A talent you couldn't help? Does that mean I shouldn't waste my time talking to you? Needless to say, I didn't respond.


Hours later, I receive another email from the same guy:

Recruiter X: Also, I didn’t know engineers were so photogenic =) 

Okay. Seriously? I don't understand what is happening here. 


Anyway, I'm going to take this as a sign to deactivate LinkedIn until it's time to start job hunting...