hunting: am i doing it right?
step 1: find an advertisement for a job.
step 2: send an email [or fax when available] with cover letter and resume.
step 3: after a few days [usually 3 or 4 depending on my level of excitement], call to follow up. to make sure they received info. to ask if the position has been filled.
step 4: cry when they either don’t answer and never call back even when you leave a message or tell you the position has been filled.
are follow up phone calls a good idea or are they just annoying?
Follow up calls are always a good idea. I wouldn’t have my current job if hadn’t followed up. I called after I sent in my resume and that got me an interview. A follow up after that got me a return visit. And a follow up call after that got me the job. In my opinion, follow up calls show persistence and initiative.
I know all the rejection is disheartening, but look at it this way: the people who find your persistence annoying are probably not people you want to be working for in the first place.
Keep it up and Good Luck!
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Letter Of Note of the Day: An internal memo from 1987 forwarded to the Head of Network TV at Paramount re: Star Trek: TNG casting provides a rare glimpse at “what could have been.”
Things that make you go hmm: Wesley Snipes as Geordi.
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