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Subject:RE: The odds of finding work through job ads From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:54:20 -0500
BTW...I should add something to my comment about 2,000 addresses...all of
these have been contacted by me individually at one time or another in the
past and agreed to having me keep them informed when I become
available....it's taken me 10 years to accumulate this list. Most are
agencies, some are hiring managers...however, all of them agreed to be on
my list and no...I don't give anyone else permission to make them available
unsolicited.
John Posada
-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:39 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: The odds of finding work through job ads
Let me rephrase that...the model is odds.
If I send out 5 resumes and my response rate is 1 out of 100, then I get 0
response.
If I send out 500 resumes and my response rate is 1 out of 100, I get 5
responses.
The amount of effort for either of them is for all intents, the same.
When I'm coming to an end of a contract, I still do this...among other
things at a much more personal level. I'm continually adding recruiters and
companies to my personal database...I have over 2,000 addresses in ACT! and
I send them out through a program called NetMailer. Granted, the database is
more tuned to what I'm trying to do, but that doesn't change the definitions
of what I'm doing.
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