It&#x27;s pretty easy to filter out the bad recruiters (I call them keyword monkeys), though.<p>I have about half a dozen recruiters I trust. All of them contacted me with a cold call email after finding me in LinkedIn or elsewhere.<p>Yes, the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty bad, but you can essentially pattern match the good from the bad really easily based on the emails they&#x27;re sending out. The bad ones look like templated emails. The good ones send personal emails clearly not sent to anyone else.