Really depends on if the recruiter knows anything about what they are recruiting for or not.
Recruiter focused on a small area of tech and has hired for similar roles for several years? They probably understand at least what to look for on a resume.
Recruiter has 30+ roles to recruiter for spanning marketing, tech, and finance? They also had exactly 1 conversation with the manager about what they are looking for? They don't know JavaScript from Java? ChatGPT is going to at least give them a, "Call this person" or "Dont call this person" response.
source: was a tech recruiter for many years before becoming a developer
oh dear, most recruiters are clueless, and they WILL reject a candidate who is a core React contributor, because unfortunately they don't know JavaScript
i have worked now in the industry for a few years. it is sad.
Unless you specialize and understand a distinct vertical all recruiters are pointless.
I say this as someone who has done it very successfully for 20 years, pre-brain tumor (I’ve commented on this in the past).
I’m coming back soon and expect to be as successful again because I understand people and I understand my market. I’m a failed dev. Not quite smart enough to be one, but more than smart enough to help hire ‘em.
I’ve literally had that react / JavaScript thing happen from the thread above with a corporate recruiter I knew.
Arrogance mixed with ignorance as well as only knowing a boom market your whole career is a powerful combination boost to incompetence!
Not erasing your emails after some time (or at least not removing the sender or recipient email address) is also a GDPR violation (because email addresses are personal information).
Source: a privacy compliance lawyer working at a billion dollar European corporation told me that one day.
It's for as long as necessary to serve the purpose. If you're brought to court, you could either argue that you still need it for your specific use case, or you can point to some internal procedure to delete stuff that's way past the point of usefulness and say that you're already complying.
And as the parent comment said, you don't really have to delete them at all, keeping some sort of a copy that you ran through some sort of a personal data removal tool also works.
Example: years old closed support tickets, you'll never need to know exactly who made them, but you might wanna reference some info from them.
Recruiters need/want to decide in less than 30 seconds. It is easier for them to just make a rough call after looking at the resume from a distance