Babies must be spoon fed, not employers.Someone once said never let an employer have to work to find you, your work, your resume. Never think an employer will have to work to find anything, always put it within easy reach of their eyes and brain. What a pathetic concept. Look at the title, babies need to be spoon fed, not employers. Most of these people are sitting on their ever-widening hind ends scouring the internet anyway. When they' re checking up on any prospects on the websites they pay good money to search databases, or when their doing other business, or research. If you have time to do that, it won' t kill you to work those fingers just a little bit more to find a prospective applicant' s material like mine elsewhere not readily accessible. When I send a greeting e-mail asking to be considered for a job, do I have to actually tell them to notice and download the two attachments called a resume' and cover letter? For jobs in technology, do I have to actually spell it out that I would like an ideal wage of market value? Or do we all have to play the game of ignorant employer nation, where unless you state something clearly and succintly their brains are like sponges that just will not absorb anything without the help of a squeezing hand? "When I send a greeting e-mail asking to be considered for a job, do I have to actually tell them to notice and download the two attachments called a resume' and cover letter? " Yes. Do not assume anything. Don' t assume they noticed. (It is easy to overlook attachments -- I do it all the time without meaning to!) Don' t assume that the person printing out the attachments knows anything. Don' t assume that the first person to look at the resume is the person who is most knowledgeable about the position. "For jobs in technology, do I have to actually spell it out that I would like an ideal wage of market value? " Yes, but do it in a NICE way. It' s new ballgame for job hunting today. You best learn it Technology jobs are no different than any other job to get. You have to stand out among all the other candidates who are looking to get that same job. Otherwise, you just ain' t gonna win. Simple as that. You are going to continue to be unemployed. You miss the point of the initial opinion. I' m venting. Which means I' m calling every employer stupid, dumb, and incompetent by doubting that they can even tie their own shoes in the morning. Get it? If you' re running a business that will need employees, it' s best you have some degree of intelligence. Having people spoon feed you each and every little thing just seems too rediculous to me. This is 2007 if you haven' t noticed, not 1807. In this the digital age, employers simply cannot plea ignorance to things like an e-mail attached resume or cover letter, and knowing what prospective applicants want in the job market. Don' t give me a bunch of nonsense ( as I said in the first posting ) about hardship and time constraints. That' s why society invented computer technology, it' s called convenience. So what if you ( as an employer ) find yourself spending as much as two or three hours skimming through a pile of detailed resume' s and cover letters. That' s what software word-scanning packages are for. But it never seems enough, employers still want more condensation. In a word, it' s pathetic.
Society didn' t invent computer technology, AlGore did. That gas snorting, electricity wasting, energy hog! | |
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