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From: keith@seismo.CSS.GOV (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Re: resume
Message-ID: <592@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 21:54:14 EST
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Summary: the point is that personnel departments don't read USENET

In article <825@nmtvax.UUCP>, nmhr@nmtvax.UUCP writes:
> In article <> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> >
> >	In my opinion, it takes a certain amount of `chutzpah' for someone
> >to post their resume to the net - which could speak favorably for the person
> >seeking a job.

> Sounds to me like you're confusing "chutzpah" with "assholery."
> It takes about as much guts to post your resume to the Net as it
> does to send the same to a company you'd like to work for.

Unless other people in your company are going to see the posting.  Then
it's something, I'm not sure what, though. ;-)

> The latter doesn't muck up a public network (unless you want to be
> totally obnoxious and consider US Mail a Network) and is probably
> more likely to elicit a response.

USENET is not a public network.  And, while it certainly won't elicit responses
from the personnel department, who wants one?  I think the number one problem
of many hiring situations is getting past the headhunters and the personnel
departments so you can find out what the company is really doing.  If a great
resume shows up on the net, I'll forward it to my boss.  You wouldn't, just
because it arrived electronically?

> And I'm sorry if you are having to stoop to the net to find
> prospective employees. Maybe you should send headhunters or
> recruiters out to colleges all over the country. Hiring someone
> by a Net-Posted resume must leave a lot to be desired.

Do you rank your employees by the amount of money it cost to hire them?  Your
headhunters sure as hell can't describe your job opening to the number of
people that read net.jobs every day.  After all, many people read it not to
find a new job, but to keep abreast of salaries and what jobs are opening up
in the marketplace.  They're not going to contact a headhunter until they are
actually dissatisfied with their current job.  Which means that your headhunters
have no way to contact them.  But... if your job description is interesting
enough, they might give you a call.  Heaven knows, the price is right.

Keith Bostic
	keith@seismo.CSS.GOV