Stop Here For Real, Live, Girls!
One of the biggest complaints that job-seekers have in job searches is not having real, live people to contact. Part of that reason is recruiters are looking for specific people to fill their open positions, which allows them to pursue a targeted plan of filtering.
Job-seekers on the other hand, rarely have more than general information about a recruiting company, so the chances of a job-seeker calling a recruiter and them having a job that fits their skills, salary, geography, kind of company, and location are all very, very slim.
And that's one reason that recruiters don't spend a lot on marketing. More untargeted resumes may be good for internal recruiters (they tend to have more jobs), but TPR recruiters go home to bread and water if they aren't making placements.
The trade-off is recruiters, the best ones, never know where their next placement comes from. The human network is just unreliable enough that sometimes the right candidate comes from the strangest of sources.
So in that spirit, and because the odds of getting the right recruiter from an alphabetical list is still better than posting your resume on Monster.com, let me point you to some real, live Seattle Recruiters (numbers not verified), who have provided specific contact info for job-seekers.
Digital Eve Seattle is a women's community and networking site set to help women get jobs in technology. The list I linked is a list of women recruiters who put their names and numbers out there for you to call.
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