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What to do if job posting says "NO CALLS" |
| Message Name: |
If we KNEW you'd recieved our resume.... |
| Date Posted: |
03/19/2002 |
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I receive the same resume, by email, by fax, by paper....and usually multiple times over and over again. It looks desperate and I do remember a name. It looks bad....its a bad practice, don't do it.
If its for a different job, do post, sometimes it goes to a different recruiter, sometimes they need to get their eye on it once more and maybe you're a better fit for that position.
Otherwise.....send once. You can follow up a fax with paper, but I tell you, checking the fax, email and everything and coming up with the same guys resume is annoying..to say the least. |
| Message: |
I've been looking for a new position since my contract ended in November. I'm a technical writer, BTW, if anyone needs one. I can't tell you how many positions I've sent my resume in for, where I don't even get an auto-acknowledge. I've called a few positions, where I see them posted for several weeks, and found that the HR person has never seen my resume. I have to wonder if they take the first 50 resumes or so, and delete the rest, or what.
Sending a resume in via email, with no contact info to follow up, is very risky and frustrating.
Another gripe (since I has so much time on my hands) is going on two or three interviews for a position, then not hearing a word about the outcome. Seems to me, professional courtesy calls for some sort of feedback to any candidate who came in for an interview.
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