More Anecdotal Encounters

I decided to mark these general resume emails as anecdotes also. I found this one entertaining: I’m looking for work that doesn’t involve customer service. Also work that is relatively healthy in that there are no poisonous gasses or fumes in the workplace … I have had around 30 jobs in the past 10 years. I quit jobs because I either get sick of the people I work with, bored with the job, or a little of both. I took the liberty of shortening the cover letter – it didn’t change the context. You know, we sometimes harpoon websites that ghost write cover letters and resumes. In this instance, investing… Read More

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Anecdote – Work at Home

Friday sourcing anecdote time so let’s go. This one was an email response that I need to give you just a little background information. First, the company we were running this hiring process for had a few open positions on their website. Second, we were in different stages of the hiring process on several positions with several customers. I received this email with “work at home” for a subject: hi ijohna ilooking to work this at home can you call me asap 4561230978cst johna@email.com call me monday at 2;00pmcst I am always baffled by responses like this to employment ads. This guy obviously has some communication issues with email. Yet,… Read More

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Monster.com Sees Dip in Online Recruitment

A quick blurb of a story from TechWeb about Monster.com’s numbers released for June. 24 of the 28 major markets showed lower online recruitment activity. They do mention that Minneapolis and St. Louis actually saw an increase in online activity for the month. We can attest to that fact in our local sourcing campaigns. I think this excerpt cuts to the quick of the entire story: “Broader business expansion activities slowed with the start of the summer vacation season.” We see this trend every year – July and August are truly hit-or-miss months of the year. Vacation schedules play a major part in it. One anomaly, traditionally we have had… Read More

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