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by ivan_gammel 645 days ago
This is a regular part of the recruiting process, where you may start chatting in LinkedIn and then get an invite on your email.
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If the recruiter doesn't ask me first (or I don't agree to a meeting), this is called "spam", and I would be happy for the system to just not allow it.
I have never encountered a situation where recruiter starts immediately with an invite without prior conversation (such invite also blocks the time slot of the sender - it would be stupidly ineffective to do that). It is hypothetical and improbable scenario that is not even worth mentioning here.
Okay, so why wouldn't you be able to whitelist them ahead of time then?
It just doesn’t make sense to do it ahead of time in such situations. Email client could simply ask if I trust the email before processing the attachment (and some clients do that). Automated pre-processing of attachments is a general risk that doesn’t apply only to calendar.
Often, a coordinator sends the invite - not the recruiter.