It depends a lot on what job-searching sites you use and what information you give them. I got on Dice to apply for a particular job, and had to take my phone n

It depends a lot on what job-searching sites you use and what information you give them. I got on Dice to apply for a particular job, and had to take my phone number off my account there to get the pushy recruiter calls to stop. LinkedIn mostly isn't too bad, but I still wouldn't put a phone number on there. It's not the type of roles that gets irritating, but the pushiness and desperation of some recruiters. Like they've read too many books on sales and think that they can get any engineer into any job if only they say the right words and are persistent enough.