Who do you guys recommend for application review?

Recently I've been hearing a lot of stories of highly qualified people that have had their app in, updated etc and no call for years. People that are LCA, or former Air Force with 121 exp, 1000s of hours of TPIC,it's a little discouraging that they don't get calls from anyone, a lot of these guys have met with chief pilots and tons of letters of rec, thoughts?