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Discussion on: Recruiters mess up all the technologies. Should we show them their mistakes? Or... laugh?

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Fen Slattery

As someone who's friends with recruiters, I've learned that external recruiters frequently are given job requirements by the company they're working with, and have to go with them even if they don't quite make sense (like in your case).

If you want to respond, I'd go with something polite and ask them if they're aware it's not possible to have that many years of experience. It's not necessarily the recruiter's fault, and I'd just keep in mind that they're a person just trying to do their job on the other end of the email. I used to be really annoyed by ridiculous things that recruiters sent me, and consider sending them some not-so-nice messages, but now I honestly just laugh and delete the message.