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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Corporate Image
Keywords: do you have one?
Message-ID: <361@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 88 22:01:24 GMT
References: <7047@tness7.UUCP> <240@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <338@optilink.UUCP> <1925@looking.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <1925@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> In article <338@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> >Misc.jobs.wanted is the most powerful reason of all (to beancounters) 
> >to be on USENET.
> 
> But I would think it would bother many firms that this is one of the
> most widely read groups.  Aside from those taken from schools, each applicant
> hired from the net is hired away from another net company.  No "net" gain.
> How many are taken from schools?

Not necessarily.  A friend of mine was just hired through the net, but
he was currently unemployed.  Also, someone who is unhappy with his 
current employer is probably not that much of an asset to his current
employer.  Consider also that if A hires X from B without a headhunter
through USENET, it's a heck of a lot cheaper than A hiring X from B
with a headhunter.  The "net" efficiency of USENET hiring may therefore
be higher than NOT having USENET.

> Fortunately misc.jobs.resumes isn't much of a bother.  Have more than a
> couple of people ever been hired because of that?  Who wants an employee that
> would send a resume out to thousands of companies, in hope of any job?
> -- 
> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

A deaf friend of mine was just hired that way.  We hired our SA by posting
the opening in misc.jobs.offered.  At Kontron, I posted a request for 
someone to work on Kontron's QPDM based graphics card, and I got a
consultant who had just finished writing software for the QPDM chip at
AMD.  I suspect a lot of hiring is going on.  It would be interesting to 
keep statistics on it.

Clayton E. Cramer