I currently live in Belgium in a candidate market (I am a software engineer).
I have a steady income of messages on Linked-In (10 / month in normal times, 10 / week if I put “open to work” label).
What pisses me off, is that 1 / 3 of the message I get have the following format:
Hello ________, I have an opportunity for you, what is the best number to reach you?
I routinely ignore messages that don't share salary range, so I wondered what is the point of those ones.
Out of curiosity I messaged back to one other. Long story short, he would not give me the exact location of the prospective employer unless we have a call. Of course, I declined because of lack of the essential info.
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Could someone explain, what is the point for recruiters to behave like this in a market where candidates are the daddies?