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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Corporate Image
Message-ID: <12576@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 88 01:06:25 GMT
References: <7047@tness7.UUCP> <240@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <338@optilink.UUCP> <1925@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: news.sysadmin
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1925@looking.UUCP> by brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton):
+---------------
| 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?
+---------------

How about the -- admittedly small, but rapidly growing -- collection of
public access sites?  Also, not all of the companies on the net are large,
and advancement opportunities can be limited at small companies, so the net
can be useful to people at such companies in finding openings at larger
sites.  (No, I haven't used this, nor am I likely to; for some of us,
advancement opportunities aren't as important as enjoying our jobs.)

+---------------
| 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?
+---------------

People do that with paper mail, and once (sans business computer experience,
and therefore fruitlessly) I hit on foot every company in Cleveland's
"little Silicon Valley", a rather impressive array of places.  The only
difference is using the net is that it's easier (and often uses less
postage!).

++Brandon
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