Good executive recruiters can work within these requirements and may even arrange interviews without submitting your resume. Like any brokers, recruiters work hardest for candidates who can help them close a sale. Unwillingness to job move immediately or an unwillingness to accept a fair offer will discourage recruiters from working with you. Remember, recruiters work for client companies, so you may need to wait for the right opportunity. Get to know two or three pros, and stick with them.
Advertised openings are generally the least effective way to obtain a job interview.
So when you come to an employer's attention by this route, you are associated with an unpleasant process, and with a horde of candidates the company must weed out. Sending in a resume is simply not effective. The Department of Labor survey from the early 1990s reported that only 5 out of 100 American jobholders got their positions through newspaper want ads. Other surveys indicate it is closer to 2 out of 100. Most resume readers take less than 5 seconds per resume to decide if the resume gets looked over later or pushed to the rejection pile.