The first mistake is accepting a connection on linked to someone you don't know •professionally*. Once you accept a connection to a recruiter you now have 500+ secondary connections to people that you have nothing in common with - except that you both once looked for a job.<p><a href="http://www.brelson.com/2011/05/how-recruiters-are-posing-a-threat-to-linkedin-even-though-they-dont-mean-to/" rel="nofollow">http://www.brelson.com/2011/05/how-recruiters-are-posing-a-t...</a>