A couple of weeks ago I was approached by a recruiter on LinkedIn, I simply told her that in order to proceed she had to tell me the name of the company, and th

A couple of weeks ago I was approached by a recruiter on LinkedIn, I simply told her that in order to proceed she had to tell me the name of the company, and that I will treat this information with the highest confidentiality. I also told her that I don't accept any perm positions coming from my current and former consulting clients. In the end, I got the name of the company and I decided not to go any further. The advantage for me is that I spent no more than 15 minutes reading and composing emails with the recruiter, no pointless editing of CVs, no useless phone interviews or suits to wear.