Job Hunting Rules

[charliesmum]

Dear People who submitted resumes to my company for possible work in the Gulf Coast region:

Three things you really ought to know if you are job searching.

1. Make sure your phone number is somewhere in your resume. In fact, it is wise to put your phone number in your cover letter also, just to be on the safe side. emails are fine, but you look like a bit of a burke if you can't even double check to make sure your phone number is where you said it would be.

2. Get a bloody answering machine! Seriously. It's 2005, who doesn't have an answering machine? Or an email address. Can't offer you a job if we can't get a hold of you. Besides, there are, quite literally, hundreds of other candidiates. We can skip you completely.

3. Make sure your phone doesn't roll immediately to a fax machine because that noise? Annoying. And again, if you have a phone that does that, give an alternate number! See above - no skin off my back if I don't get a hold of you.

Love, charliesmum who is slowly getting annoyed.

Comments

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

All my answering machines get burned out. I don't know why. I can't keep one.

*grumbles*

Luckily,I have no fax.

[chrysantza.livejournal.com]

Yanno, if someone is looking for a job, and doesn't have the brains to realize that the employer needs a way for them to GET IN CONTACT, then they're probably not the right person.

Voicemail (which I have) doesn't cost much. And I know people are displaced and don't have phone numbers, but surely a friend or family member does?

Argh.