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How not to get a job, part 12543523

So there’s this guy. He’s a .NET developer based in San Francisco. How do I know of him?

He spams his resume to my coworkers.

Not to Stephanie and me, mind you. This developer has somehow gotten the email addresses of both creative recruiters in my office, and the email address of the branch manager in the Office/Finance office down the street from us, and spams his resume to them regularly, but he has never managed to figure out who the IT recruiters are.

Having their own work to deal with, each of these coworkers individually opens the resume, sees that it’s for a developer, and dutifully forwards it on to Stephanie and me. So we end up with three copies each of a resume from a dude who can’t be bothered to figure out who to send it to, thinks nothing of sending spam, and doesn’t even bother to geographically focus his search.

I wonder how that’s working out for him.

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One Response to “How not to get a job, part 12543523”

  1. Jeff Hamilton Says:
    February 20th, 2006 at 1:57 am

    So, I need a job. I am fairly intellegent…double major at Yale in Architecture and International Studies, speaks four languages, high GPA etc. Still, noone will hire me. I do not know anything about programming and want to work for a hi-tech company in software design or marketing (therein lies the problem), but will settle for anything with health insurance. Who will hire me? Who do I send a resume to that wont post on his/her blog about how I am misguided? Please help when you get a chance.
    Thanks,
    Jeff

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