If they have taken some time to truly investigate my profile and do not send me inquiries about jobs I'm not even remotely qualified to do (eg hardware engineering) I reply to them and I explain my situation clearly and sincerely.
I even let them know if I will be available to discuss an opportunity any time soon and if the position would sound good otherwise.
That kind of people look like a good contact and after all they do it for a living like I do my job.
Like all professions they have their strict deadlines and it is not nice to hit a wall because some of their colleagues are incompetent and there is no need to be passive aggressive.
I wouldn't like it in my job and I'm not enforcing it to others.
For the rest of them, I am usually just rejecting them politely. I'm still happy to have them in my network though, it doesn't hurt as far as I know.
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If they have taken some time to truly investigate my profile and do not send me inquiries about jobs I'm not even remotely qualified to do (eg hardware engineering) I reply to them and I explain my situation clearly and sincerely.
I even let them know if I will be available to discuss an opportunity any time soon and if the position would sound good otherwise.
That kind of people look like a good contact and after all they do it for a living like I do my job.
Like all professions they have their strict deadlines and it is not nice to hit a wall because some of their colleagues are incompetent and there is no need to be passive aggressive.
I wouldn't like it in my job and I'm not enforcing it to others.
For the rest of them, I am usually just rejecting them politely. I'm still happy to have them in my network though, it doesn't hurt as far as I know.