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Subject:Re: resume on a web page From:"John Posada (work account)" <posada -at- FAXSAV -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 5 Nov 1997 13:33:20 -0500
Tony G. Rocco wrote:
>
> It seems to me a stroke of genius that you could simply send the same email
> message to, say, 20 recruiters or employers. In the message, introduce
> yourself, describe the work you are looking for, etc., then simply include
> the URL to your web site resume. The recruiter or employer can go
> immediately to the resume, view it, and print it out if necessary. No muss,
> no fuss, no attached files that can't be de-binhexed, and so forth.
>
> Anybody do this sort of thing?
Tony...you wouldn't believe how well it works. First, check out the
following url:
This url is to an online publication that did a story on how I found my
first tech writer position through the Internet.
Since then, just to show that it wasn't a fluke, I've found my next four
contracting assignments in a similar way, all in excess of $40 per hour,
with one at $50. The difference now over the above article is that I
have a personal database of well over 300 agencies that handle tech
writer contractors. When I find myself getting close to the end of an
assignment, I crank up the resume, update it, convert it to html for the
web page and asci for the email, and send an email to well over 300
agencies at the same time.
Amazingly, there will be multiple days at a stretch where I get calls
from 5-10 agencies per day, with rarely a day that I don't get atleast
one call. The last three gigs I took first come first serve and I
didn't go more than a day or two between the end of one and the start of
another. This time, I became very picky and turned down 3 positions
before accepting the one I have now.
It really does work, but shhh...let's keep it between you and me. ok?
>
> - tgr
>
> At 12:12 PM -0500 11/5/97, John Posada (work account) wrote:
>
> >Tanya Reece wrote:
> >>
> >> I am an English graduate student thinking about doing contracting technical
> >> writing part-time soon and full-time after graduation. How effective is
> >> having your resume on a web page?
> >>
> >
> >Tanya...how effective is your resume regardless of the medium?
> >
> >Seriously...I just went through a three week search for the perfect
> >contract (and found it, and trust me, I talked to alot of frogs).
> >During that period, I was getting calls from 3-8 agencies per day,
> >almost every day (thank you Internet). I posted my asci resume on the
> >net and almost without exception, an agency would eventually ask for a
> >formatted version. I would tell them that I could fax it, send it as a
> >Word attachment, or they could go to my web url for the formatted
> >resume. If I had to guess, it was probably 33%/33%/33% for requesting
> >each of the alternatives.
> >
> >You could have it out there without any link to it and to get to it,
> >they would have to get the url from you (What's the secret password? -
> >Joe sent me)
> >
> >If done correctly, it will look just as good as on paper...unless yours
> >looks poorly on paper (grin). See mine.
> >http://www.tdandw.com/resume.html
> >
> >--
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> >
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> >them
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