Well.

[prog]

Three days after posting my resume on dice.com, I am being overrun with emails and even calls from recruiters. I kind of expected something like this to happen, but not at this magnitude. But, it is not unwelcome at this juncture.

Some are just shy of being spam, lists of jobs all over the place that sometimes aren't even remotely in my field, with no regard to being the remote-friendly contract work I explicitly seek. But an appropriately Sturgeonesque proportion is more interesting, and I'm in multiple conversations right now.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

g'luck with the jobbies.

I am extremely amused that Shannon Wheeler's exception: "except crap, 100% of crap is crap" made it to the Wikipedia page. That always cracks me up.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

"Jobby" is Scots for what Sturgeon (and Wheeler) are talking about. :-)

[glowingwhispers.livejournal.com]

Glad you hear you're having success. Hopefully, when I'm called to the bar next June, I'll meet with similar enthusiasim.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

i have actually wondered about this too. i have also received phone calls from recruiters about sales position opportunities available in pharmaceuticals. this makes me think viagra spam sender.

so you are just answering willy nilly, or are you looking up the company's website and being choosy? i confess to being curious since i don't do much in terms of follow up.

and hey, do you have one of those mission statements at the top of your resume? the people i have asked either say YES you MUST have it on there or NO you don't need it they all sound the same which is cheesy.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I originally had an "Objective" statement at the top, since that was what I was taught to do in college. Over time it's become a "Summary" section, which basically states in a single paragraph how I define myself, professionally speaking, and the sort of work I'm best and most experienced at. I think there's value in that.

I'm ignoring many of the pingers with no sense of bad karma. Some are shooting really wide to the net. Others are kind of close, and I will send them a note like "Thanks for writing, but I don't know PHP very well. But I'm a Perl expert and I once killed a man with AJAX. What do you say to that?"