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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Re: resume
Message-ID: <1007@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 21:49:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 21:49:17 1985
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In article <825@nmtvax.UUCP> nmhr@nmtvax.UUCP (Tracy McInvale) writes:
>>	In my opinion, it takes a certain amount of `chutzpah' for someone
>>to post their resume to the net - which could speak favorably for the person
>>seeking a job.
>
>Sounds to me like you're confusing "chutzpah" with "assholery."
>....

While I'm still not sure how the ETTIQUETTE of posting one's resume 
stands, I have to agree with the first comment more. I think that just 
about everybody on the net, particularly those with laser printer 
access, have electronic copies of their resume; maybe some netters 
(mistakenly?) think that posting their resume is like placing it in a 
career office folder.

>And I'm sorry if you are having to stoop to the net to find
>prospective employees. Maybe you should send headhunters or
>recruiters out to colleges all over the country. Hiring someone
>by a Net-Posted resume must leave a lot to be desired.

As for this, I also have to disagree. Consider MIT: Anybody posting from
MIT has an account on certain limited-access computers. This means that 
they must be doing something beyond their normal classwork. Many of them
are "Project Athena" consultants who grow to know UNIX inside out. 
Others, like myself, are involved to some degree in various research 
projects at the Lab for Computer Science. While I can't speak for every 
site, I would imagine it is a similar situation at other universities. 
If I saw a net-posted resume, I would wonder what the person was doing 
that got them access to a usenet site on campus. (Of course I know that 
such "evidence" doesn't mean much, but that's what interviews should 
find out).

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX

"I'm looking for the joke with a microscope."
-Iggy Pop