RE: Hiring, but it's a secret?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

The standard recruiting process might not be the best way to find a job.
I got my current job (and the one before that) by contacting companies
that looked like interesting places to work. I sent my resume to
hundreds of companies, and I got interviews with a number of them that
had just started thinking about _maybe_ hiring a tech writer.

When a company failed to reply with a rejection, I would send my resume
again, using a different means of contact: first e-mail, and then fax,
and then snail mail. Almost everyone who called to invite me for an
interview (including the two companies that ended up hiring me) were
responding to my second or third contact -- not my first.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deborah Hemstreet
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:12 PM
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Hiring, but it's a secret?
> 
> ... It seems to me that finding a job these days is more based on 
> skill in getting through the recruiting process rather than a 
> person's actual capabilities. Or perhaps this is the case 
> only for people who have not been in the job market for a 
> very long time and the rules have all changed?
> 

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