Well.

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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.

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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?"