the pavement approach I got turned away from three of the four places I went
and the guy wasn't there to tell me to go away from the fourth place.
Surprisingly enough, the three interviews that I've gotten have come from
anonymous emails... resumes sent in via websites with a cover letter email.
I have hand-delivered two resumes, the first one seemed really promising
until someone from the company's direct competition that had been laid off
applied for the job. Very little training required.
I will also admit that I've been rather direct in recent applications. I'll
track down a company's phone number via the "apply to email" and find out
who to actually address the resume to if I can talk to someone about it.
Places are *still* getting flooded with resumes,
Hatton
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:48 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: New Free Service
I signed up for ResumeBlaster when I first started my search last year,
thinking that getting my resume out to as many people as possible. Out
of some 10,000 resumes sent out, I got nothing - not a single solitary
real response, aside from a handful of "Thanks for sending your resume,
we'll review your qualifications and never get back to you" form emails.
I then put a lot more work into following individual leads, sending
non-folded resumes on heavy cotton stock to actual people (some phone
calls gets me the name of the correct contact - secretaries are *so*
friendly). I also redesigned my resume to look ridiculously traditional
and conservative (hello, serif font) and I was very successful. I don't
know if that was an anomaly or not, but when I actually stopped emailing
a word doc of my resume and instead did my job search the traditional
way, I landed a job in no time.
I haven't read anything along these lines yet, but I know other people
who employed those tactics and are happily employed now, as well. Maybe
it's an employer backlash to the glut of faceless Word Doc resumes?
- Jim
Earl, George wrote:
>Hatton said:
>
>
>>I know how you feel... I've been hunting for something for
>>two months straight and I've hardly gotten any responses at all.
>>
>>Actually, interview-letter ratio is now negative, I've had 3
>>interviews and received 4 response letters telling me thanks
>>but no thanks!
>>
>>That's out of 76 contacts, about 15 of which are
>>staffing/placement agencies. The rest are all direct.
>>
>>
>
>I saw a piece about this on Dateline or a similar show not long ago. The
>gist was that with the advent of the Internet employers simply cannot
keep
>up with the numbers of people who are submitting resumes and applying for
>jobs, whether solicited or not. According to this story employers are
>totally overwhelmed with the ocean of resumes and job applications that
come
>in via email and they simply cannot respond to them. In addition to this,
>apparently there is some sort of legal requirement that each resume that
>comes in has to be stored for a specific period of time, which is
creating a
>massive filing headache for many employers . . .
>
>George
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