Why can't recruitment agents read?

**Protagoras** · 29 May 2026, 22:02

Even though I'm clearly 'NEET' and economically inactive last time I was easily able to access LinkedIn I was still getting messages from Agents who obviously send before read.

But LI has become too tedious to use anyway; for months now it comes up with a dialogue about (an) additional security check and whenever I get this I just close the browser and don't bother logging in.

**courtg9000** · 30 May 2026, 06:57

Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

Just received the below via LinkedIn. The only thing they got correct was my name and my current client. My current role has nothing to do with those technologies and nothing in my historical experience mentions them either.

I replied thanking them for the approach and highlighting I had none of the required experience saying, "I'm not sure what search terms you used but they're not giving you very good results".

If anyone thinks this is a real gig and wants a crack at it, let me know, and you can see if the numpty who sent this is a real boy or an AI bot.

There are so many recruiters out there that cannot read. Especially on LinkedIn. I'm retired. It says so on my profile. So many messages, "can we have a catch up about so and so". "I'm recruiting for a shelf stacker/stuntman and like the look of your profile". - Show me a shelf stacker or stuntman that cannot walk!

Got to love AI

My Linkedin Profile says im retired!

I wrote a blog about this a while back where I got AI to write me a whole stack of stuff, (cv, covering letter, rehearsed answers for interview questions, the lot), for the role of Chief Executive of the Human Trafficking Foundation. Those here that know me well will know that I could do a CEO role if my health was ok but not that one! I have written further about this including a plan on how to abolish AI from the recruiting process.

I have had several "bun fights" about this since the beginning of the year. Its become a bit of a bugbear.

From one of my blogs:

"“This started out with me sticking up for an employer who rejected a CV because it had been created with AI. I agree with the employer on this one. I’m totally with them on this.”

I should have been clearer originally. The employer rejected the CV to the recruiter and then the recruiter took umbrage. The recruiter was actually quite furious, but not as furious as the employer! The recruiter was also more than furious at people who backed the employer on Linkedin. In my opinion, this was not this recruiter’s finest piece of decision making."

Also from one of my blogs "AI makes the case that one day a shelf stacker will get a job as a brain surgeon at a big NHS hospital and **** a brain surgery up! That will cause untold reputational damage that the hospital will never recover from. If it hasn't happened already this scenario is not far off!!
In my own view AI is helping this to happen! Candidates love it for that reason and HR and recruiters don't want any more work to do not that they do very much already!

The world is going to hell in an AI handcart!

**NotAllThere** · 31 May 2026, 17:40

It's always been thus.

Back in 2001, I had an agent insist that an opportunity was in Brentwood. "Brentford, you mean", I said. "No, definitely Brentwood". Thing is I lived in Brentwood and knew the client was based in Brentford.

**DoctorStrangelove** · 31 May 2026, 21:11

It's probably due to the hair gel dripping into their eyes.

**Ketto** · 1 June 2026, 11:26

Pretty sure the checks would not have gone further than "This is a BA role, LM is a BA - great fit!"

Why can't recruitment agents read?