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Attention job seekers--so you sent a resume and nobody acknowledged it, right?
Subject:Attention job seekers--so you sent a resume and nobody acknowledged it, right? From:Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:15:01 -0400
Folks,
One of the hats I wear is webmaster. When we have an opening, I post the
position on our Web site, and my nifty little script puts in an "apply
for this position" link that opens a blank email message for the person
to send to a mailbox called careers -at- -dot- -dot- -dot- -dot-
Simple enough, right? But on the mail server side, any incoming mail
that goes to the careers mailbox has to get forwarded to a real person
to read. Only the thing is, the person the mail used to go to is no
longer with the company.
Well, it just occurred to me--today, several months after she left--to
mention this to our system administrator. So I now have a mailbox full
of résumés that have come in over the last months that were never,
repeat _never_ acknowledged by anyone. We might even have hired some of
these folks had I remembered to fix the mailbox when the person left the
company.
Okay, this was really dumb on my part, and I'll send out polite
apologies to all those folks. But my point is this: periodically people
post a question about when to follow up after emailing a résumé, and
people respond with various suggestions. But something to keep in mind
is that glitches happen, and it is entirely possible the résumé never
got to a human being. So, yes, it is worth a follow-up phone call.
Dick
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