I'm an Access programmer who's been out of IT for about three years. I'm looking to get back into the industry and there are open positions. I get contacted around once a week.

For example someone contacted me about a six month contract in San Jose working directly under the PM. However, once the recruiter saw the lapse in my resume, she wouldn't even submit me. I even offered to reduce my price to one third of my rate for the first month.

This problem keeps coming up, does anyone have any advice?

Thanks.