Just a question, is it common in your country to actually bother with recruiters? I ignore them by default as I consider it a slimy business and quite frankly I dont care what they have to say. If I am interested into working for some company, I will send them an email, regardless if they are recruiting or not and I was rejected in around 30% (but I do have something to show in my resume or even if they ignore it, in my hobby projects). 3rd party recruiting, with their generic letters? Come on, at least try.

But I must say this is something relatively new to me, I started to get those letters on linkedin like 2-3 years ago, is this like a common practice?