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Originally posted by Kitsune
I still think the best way to find a job is through personal networking and word of mouth.
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I agree.
However, Riddil, though I don't deny your point, having been on the receiving end of those thousand resumes, at least my employer has not had fabulous success. The resumes you get include an incredible amount of crap. Between the people who are just flat out incompetent (no, sorry, being a bilingual lifeguard doesn't qualify to work at the help desk, or at least at
my help desk), and the people who took some computer courses and have no relevant job experience, and people who are applying for a job outside their geographical area while indicating that they're not interested in relocating, we're lucky if we have a dozen or so resumes that are worth reading And sometimes it's not that much--out of three of our most recent hires, only one came to us through the Internet advertising. The other two were from newspapers. In fact, we still advertise in the newspapers by default and only hit the Internet-only sites if we don't like the candidates, because it's so much of a hassle to dig through all the chaff.