Comment by Aurornis

> Reply rates can be as bad as 1 in 500.

I've done volunteer resume review and interview coaching in the past.

The only people getting response rates that low either had the most awful resumes you've ever seen, or they were applying for jobs completely out of their league.

Like the 23 year old applying for Staff Software Engineer jobs as the next step up from his junior position (which he was laid off from) with 6 typos in his resume and an e-mail address of ninjadude69@hotmail.com at the top of his resume.