Throwing this one out to the considerable experience on this forum-I very recently for the first time made use of one of the many Security Recruitment Agencies as I am now actively targeting Corporate Security Roles. I applied for one suitable Management position to be told that I was not successful. Thinking that I may be lacking qualifications or experience I called them up and suggested that I go down and have a face to face so they could put a face to a name (they probably got tons of cv's so I figured the personal touch would help). I duly made the trek to the smoke (always a pleasure...) and had a great chat with one of the Directors who then promptly told me that he would put me forward for that role and that I had enough of the 'right stuff' to get into a decent Corporate role. Going home happy I then played the waiting game, emailed my thanks and called him a week later for an update. No update but all the submissions were in and I'd find out in due course. Since then however I've called three times and emailed-nothing. Zero comms! The guy is 'in a meeting and will return your call' (that old chestnut). To date I've heard nothing back. Having asked friends if they'd had similar experiences the answer was unfortunately 'yes!'...one has applied to many adverts and they didn't even reply to him to acknowledge receipt. Is this the norm? Is it even worth applying for these positions if this is the general line they take? You'd think that they'd wish to retain interest in good candidates or are they just as bad as the usual PSC cv harvesters who treat you as a number and generally dick you around? Not impressed with what I've found so far...