> Personally, I go the other way. I send out resumes selectively, and run closer to about a 30% response rate. That has been my experience as well; smaller, "b

> Personally, I go the other way. I send out resumes selectively, and run closer to about a 30% response rate. That has been my experience as well; smaller, "boring" companies (that I still genuinely want to work for), project list attached to CV priorized according to the company -> response rate of > 70 percent Domain experience helps tremendously, if only because it builds some rapport with the interviewer. Deep customization of CV / project list is lost for larger companies because it never reaches a person who understands it, leading to the abysmally low response rate.