Some extra information to consider: 0) Many employers hate recruiters just as badly as most job seekers hate recruiters 1) Recruiters earn their money off of

Some extra information to consider: 0) Many employers hate recruiters just as badly as most job seekers hate recruiters 1) Recruiters earn their money off of getting employers to sign with them, they lose money on trying to find employees (and pretending to screen them the way the lady did in this post). 2) Proportionally they spend a great deal of time being very courteous to employers, yet are very brisk and rude to employees 3) They feed your MS Word document through a program that scans it for key words, they never actually look at it 4) They just copy and paste your information into their resume template which removes any of your contact information but has their huge logo on top 5) I've been in 2 companies that went under and had to find a job fast, all 3 times I found a job it was _never_ through a recruiter. So yeah, just avoid recruiters. Your time is too valuable for that.