I have worked for companies making hiring software, most HR people are swimming in a sea of applicants and still do something as dumb as a raw keyword search of resumes from their db and call people with almost no other reference.<p>That is if you are lucky and doing direct hire work, if you are looking for temporary work the question at the top of everyone&#x27;s mind is how recently you have applied.<p>I remember seeing databases with 400k+ employees and they had maybe 200 active staff, always doing work trying to recruit more people instead of using the data they already had.