Here's the deal with HR and recruiters: In many cases, you're their product, not their client/customer. So, they will use... erm, contact you, when and as and

Here's the deal with HR and recruiters: In many cases, you're their product, not their client/customer. So, they will use... erm, contact you, when and as and how it suits them. When their client is interested -- and you have to hope that this is maybe at least halfway the hiring manager; not infrequently, it isn't -- that's when things happen. One prospective job, I'd been identified, but no call was made. I happened to have the name of and to catch the hiring manager, who was rather senior at the organization. Blamo, I had a call to set up an interview within 24 hours. If you have enough seniority/desirability to have some appeal/leverage, try to deal with the hiring manager. To the extent the both of you can, relegate recruitment/HR to doing the paperwork/busywork. Of course, this isn't always possible. P.S. Of course, don't present this attitude to recruitment/HR, or they may do their best to sabotage you. Not just out of spite; the more this happens, the less relevant and influential and paid they are.