Every once in a while in this business you will look at some candidate data, and be surprised by what you see.  A colleague of mine, Scott Axel (a diehard Buckeye fan), conducted a survey on LinkedIn asking people their preferred method of unsolicited contact by a recruiter.  When I looked at the final results of this survey I was surprised to see that e-mail (InMail, and e-mail) was the preferred method of contact.  I had always been trained to think a phone call is the best method of…