Re: Resume inflation (was Re: [SAGE] Tests for SystemsAdministrator interviews.)

[Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>]

At 10:02 PM -0700 2004-09-15, Dave Close wrote:

>  Personal contacts have always been the best way to find a job. Lately,
>  they seem to be nearly the only way to find one that really fits.

	I think I've mentioned before that my Mom is an HR professional 
of many years experience, and she told me years ago that something 
like 90% of all positions that are successfully filled came through 
personal contacts.  Something like 9% come through head-hunters.  The 
remaining 1% come through job advertisements in the newspaper, etc....

	This is where I'm hoping that LinkedIn will be able to help me 
find a suitable job once my wife and I move back to the US (currently 
looking at the Austin, TX area), through automation of those personal 
contacts.

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Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>

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