Magic Pot of Jobs

Why is it that when a client doesn’t like the resume I send him, he writes back to ask if I’ve “got anyone else?”

Hey, dumbass, your position has been open for two months and you haven’t liked any of the responses you’ve gotten. I sent you a resume, and you didn’t like it. Fair enough, but why are you now assuming that I have a whole raft of other candidates that I’m just withholding from you? As if I have 10, and I’m just dribbling them out to you one at a time to amuse myself.

As I have said to others, I make money by putting people to work. If I had some other candidate, I would surely send it to you.

If your job has been open that long and you haven’t found the right person to fill it, either you aren’t looking hard enough, your requirements are poorly thought-out, you aren’t paying enough, or you aren’t properly evaluating the resumes you get.

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