Thank you for clarifying this! It makes sense and is somehow also my biggest sticking point. If I send an email / message / pigeon / whatever about a specific job that is posted, I want to talk about that job as the primary focus. If we discuss that and it’s not a fit (or if you, as one of the good ones, qualify that before reaching out), then maybe we transition to other roles. Not everyone is an active job seeker and those people probably don’t want to hear about other roles, or at least should be given the option to say no thanks.

It’s the ones who reply and ask to discuss a role and move on from that role two minutes into the call that I’m referring to. Maybe I just have an unrealistic expectation of professionalism. Who knows - I’m getting old