Recruiter sends out spam to everybody fitting X parameters.
If you find the company and position interesting you can respond.
A recruiter will actually look at your profile and if they think you’re a good match, go from there.
I still find it useful overall because once you respond to the recruiter, you have a decent in with the company. You do need to wait for actually good positions to come in (which would be true anyway if they were looking at your profile), but you can literally just ignore them all until you are looking to actually job hop.
Recruiter sends out spam to everybody fitting X parameters.
If you find the company and position interesting you can respond.
A recruiter will actually look at your profile and if they think you’re a good match, go from there.
I still find it useful overall because once you respond to the recruiter, you have a decent in with the company. You do need to wait for actually good positions to come in (which would be true anyway if they were looking at your profile), but you can literally just ignore them all until you are looking to actually job hop.