If you're a coder, get as much of your code out there. Contribute to open source projects. Put stuff in Github, Bitbucket or whatever. Put links to your code in your resume.

The good recruiters will look at the quality of your code (and the complexity of the problem you're trying to solve) if you give them the chance.

You basically want to show that you have good coding technique, habits, etc. The smarter recruiters out there may use this info to balance out any deficiencies in your work experience.

Keep in mind that this advice is probably useless if you're applying to a larger company that uses HRBots and/or pure checklists as hiring criteria. For those companies you should read some of those self-help "ace the (technical) interview" types of books to help you out. HRBots tend to ask textbook questions looking for textbook answers. On a side note, you'd be surprised how many people out there don't know how to answer even the simplest textbook interview questions.