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My personal record is over 12 years.
I applied for some temp work, doing building work (among other things). At the time I was at university, so wanted to make money in my time off. I never heard back from that particular agency, and wrote it off as a bust.
Cut to a decade after finishing uni. I get a random call, to see if I am available. I'm now a veteran freelancer, in a highly specialist field, so I'm used to being cold called with work offers. It quickly becomes apparent that they are not talking about my field however.
I eventually got enough info out of them to realise where the info must have come from. Even funnier was how annoyed she was that I hadn't made them aware I was no longer available! I don't know which is more impressive/disturbing, that they kept my application for that long, or that they were so short handed that they managed to get that deep into the pile of old applications!
Just wait until they hear about how they failed to inform you of anything
In 2009 I posted my resume to one of those websites, thinking little of it. I'd recently been fired and had wound down my savings. I thought at worse I'd get offers I wasn't interested in and at the time really, I needed anything.
My friends, without ever having applied for a single job, having no sales plastered all over that resume, and it being now 15 years out of date, I still get the occasional cold call for an outside 10-99 sales position based on that resume and that resume alone.
I have, in that time, been fired from two more call centers, finished school, found an offline job, decided that office work wasn't for me, gone back to school, started a career in the trades, and found my tribe.