RE: The odds of finding work through job ads

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Let me rephrase that...the model is odds. 

If I send out 5 resumes and my response rate is 1 out of 100, then I get 0
response.
If I send out 500 resumes and my response rate is 1 out of 100, I get 5
responses.

The amount of effort for either of them is for all intents, the same.

When I'm coming to an end of a contract, I still do this...among other
things at a much more personal level. I'm continually adding recruiters and
companies to my personal database...I have over 2,000 addresses in ACT! and
I send them out through a program called NetMailer. Granted, the database is
more tuned to what I'm trying to do, but that doesn't change the definitions
of what I'm doing.

>been a lot of education about spam 

There's also a great deal of progress on how to personalize it. The ones
that are instantly recognizable as spam are the ones where the TO field is
your email address and the source is a CD with 34 million addresses.
However, if you are a recruiter and the email comes to you with you properly
identified as the recipient (salutation, first name, last name, date of last
contact all inserted as variables), then you don't see it as spam.

>Furthermore, spammers are rarely actually trying 
>to peddle a product. A Wired experiment (admittedly
>far too few spam mails as a sample group)
>found that only 17% of spams Wired writers replied
>to 'gave rise to what appeared to be "legitimate" 
>offers: people with a real product to sell

Do me, 17% doesn't qualify as rarely.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
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Dayton: 732-438-3372
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---------- Donkey

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