@toon said:
Not twenty minutes after posting that, I get a request on LinkedIn to connect to this dude I've never heard of. Turns out the company he works for is an IT recruitment firm. I mean for crying out loud...
I'm pretty sure they do this because their company is too cheap to pay for the "InMails" or whatever they're called. If you hit "I don't know this person" after you reject it LinkedIn will start requiring them to enter the person's email address before letting them send requests.
I receive a few messages from recruiters on LinkedIn each week, they typically go along the lines of, "Hello, I read your profile and it seems like you would be a perfect fit for [job completely unrelated to all experience I have listed on my profile]." I also enjoy when they make up their own technologies, for example I was just contacted recently for a job invloving C# and "ASP.VB".