I will happily talk on the phone at great length with a potential employer or internal recruiter. They understand the role, they can assess my skills correctly,

I will happily talk on the phone at great length with a potential employer or internal recruiter. They understand the role, they can assess my skills correctly, they can give me the important insights into what working there will be like, and they know their actual compensation range. I have no real interest in talking with the majority of recruiters, who will generally do at least one of the following: - Misrepresent the role to me - Misrepresent me to the employer - Under or oversell me (A recruiter almost refused to put me through for my current job because I was asking for the top end of the range) A good recruiter should be able to make the decision on whether to pass a candidate on from reading a CV plus 4/5 questions (in a single email). If you know what you're doing, just set up the phone call with the employer. >who make the effort to actually get people on the phone and make it happen You might make it happen faster if you skip the phone screen with people who can't assess candidates because they don't understand the role nor the candidate!