A couple of years ago I was about to become redundant and blanket uploaded my CV onto a number of job boards, including Monster.co.uk.<p>I quickly found a role by applying to a company directly and set my account on a number of CV sites (including Monster) to private. This is the current state of my profile. All other profiles I have across job sites have either been removed or disabled in this way.<p>Fast forward 2 years and I received an email today from a recruiter with the stock &quot;your CV out of date, I am keen to talk to you&quot; blurb. Usually this would go straight in the bin, I get about 10 of these a week so this isn&#x27;t anything new.<p>This email however was part of a chain, and the recruiter had accidentally (I assume) forwarded me an email from a company called Logic Melon with a header saying:<p><i>You requested the details for &lt;MY NAME&gt; (from Monster). The C.V. should be attached as it was downloaded. Please find the details below.</i><p>Underneath this were details of my email address, mobile phone number, current location and date the profile was last updated.<p>What it looks like is that a recruiter has paid a third party service to retrieve my CV it scraped from Monster in 2014 and get my contact details. Contact details that shouldn&#x27;t exist in the open.<p>I&#x27;m already fairly prejudiced about software recruitment firms from numerous run-ins with them in the past, so my natural response is to feel this is pretty shady behavior but should I be feeling so uncomfortable about this?<p>I understand that placing my personal details on a job board would have resulted in everyone and their mother being able to read and save it, but I didn&#x27;t really think that my CV and personal contact details would have been archived and continued to be used by recruiters long after I disabled my account. I disabled my account as an indication that I was no longer looking for work, contacting me in this way is fairly blatantly ignoring this preference.
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