Re: job-hunt weirdness

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

When this sort of thing happens to me, the first thing I usually do is 
call the other people I interviewed but chose the first-place candidate 
over to see if any of them are still available.  Next, I go back to the 
stack of resumes of people I found interesting, but not quite 
interesting enough to put them in the top tier to call in for 
face-to-face.  It's only when I've run out of interesting resumes that I 
pick up the phone and order a reposting of the ad.

Ultimately, the explanation for why any opening is still unfilled or is 
open again and you haven't gotten so much as a phone screen call is that 
your resume just didn't make the right impression with the person or 
persons selecting candidates to interview.  If you are convinced that 
your qualifications suited the requirements, the next step is to 
reassess your resume itself for clues to why they're "just not into 
you."

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Lauriston" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
>I got an explanation for one of those: they used the same ad for two
> openings, and the second hire couldn't begin work as planned.

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