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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Re: Job Openings (very mild flame)
Message-ID: <301@pyuxii.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 10:22:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 10:22:58 1986
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I see by your path that you are still ensconced in the ivory
tower.  You claim to hate headhunters.  What do you know
about headhunters.  I assume nothing more than you have
heard here on the net.  First, to learn, go down to yhe
placement office on your campus and check out the folks
from the various companies vying for your attention.  They
are all headhunters.  It makes no difference where they
come from, they are all headhunters.  As a student, those
characters down at the placement office are just about
your only hope of gaining employment.  

Now, say you wish to change jobs.  How should you try to
get the new company to recognize you?  Send a resume to the
personnel department?  Lots of luck.  Nintey percent of the resumes
sent to personnel departments are round-filed.  On the
other hand, many personnel departments engage headhunters
to screen resumes before they see them.  If your credentials are
what the company is looking for, your chances of getting in
for an interview are very high.  Otherwise, its hit or miss.

I have always worked through "headhunters" and have never had
any regrets.  Neither have I ever had to pay any fees.  
AS far as headhunters on the net are concerned, I say keep it
up.  Any company that is looking for personnel and depending
on finding them on the net has a mighty small chance of
finding what they need.  Headhunters provide a wider audience
for a company and a better chance of getting the person they want.

T. C. Wheeler