I applied two times in between 8 months apart for the same job. While I found a job, I like to keep my options open for new exciting challenges. Both times, I dealt with the same recruiter, and both times I was treated with hostility with this same person. This company needs to either re-train this recruiter to have a pragmatic and realistic view on actual human being hiring or they need another recruiter that can know how to recognize talent and source them. While I understand this recruiter only has less than a year of real world work experience and a fairly recent college graduate, her attitude of finding the perfect candidate is not realistic. She wants X,Y, and Z made ready, and perfectly molded and made for her company, and that itself is not possible. This could explain why it this role has not been filled for 8 months. Behind the scenes, as a hiring manager myself, if I were that hiring manager on that team, I would be anxious to get someone on board instead of waiting for this recruiter to find the candidate I need to do the work. I'm overworked, underbudgeted, and not meeting my target deadlines for my company. Upper management would already be up my hair about the results not being fully delivered, and I would be putting some of that lbame on this recruiter because my work is at a full stop on a few of those projects.