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But Not Funny Ha-Ha

You know what's funny? When you spend a week (or more) obsessing over your resume and clips, fretting over what kind of paper to use, making sure everything looks just right and then making three trips to the photocopy center to make a few hundred photocopies and then seeing the very job you want advertised in the classified section of the very paper you want to work for ...

And they only accept electronic applications.
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1 comment:

Gienna said...

Nope -- clips, too. And incomplete applications are not considered.

I ended up scanning in all my clips and making a sort of rudimentary online portfolio and included the link in my email cover letter. In ONE day and from SCRATCH, mind you. It's a good thing I taught myself some basic HTML.

Other alternatives would be to provide links to the stories in the paper's online archives or attach the original word document, but I didn't have either. A PDF file might have worked, too, but Joe Grimm at Ask the Recruiter says they crash his email system and he has to delete them unread.

Although I personally would prefer an old-fashioned resume and clips, I guess it makes sense from the employer's point of view. With the job market as tight as it is, I'm guessing it weeds out a certain number of applicants. And they know they're getting people who have a digital clue.

Seriously, though. Eight pages? And handwritten? That seems like a bit much to me.

April 12, 2005

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