I had a recruiter ask me once if I had a C1 English proficiency. I didn’t know what that was so I looked it up.
Turns out it means that I speak English at conversational or near native level. Well that is an interesting question to ask a native English speaker. I didn’t respond to the recruiter.
Why didn’t I respond? If they had looked at my profile, or website which is linked on my profile, they could have seen that I use slang and speak as a native would. I have had poor experiences with recruiters who don’t bother to look at my profile. They tend to be a waste of time.
I have talked to many recruiters who obviously didn’t look at my LinkedIn profile. I was polite and answered their questions, but I don’t remember getting an interview from their approach. The most effective recruiters are the ones who make a custom email. It shows that they are dealing with you as a one off, and not trying to do volume business.
There are lots of red flags in communications in LinkedIn. Too many times I have been polite and wasted my time with people who set me a spam form, with a misspelled name, or even someone else name entirely. I don’t give those people a second chance. If your job is to present your company/client in a favorable way, you are not doing it.
Its important to have standards in life, or you waste your time in situations that don’t help both sides. Be careful and always have six months of emergency savings, so you don’t have to make any decisions based on money. That is true freedom.