Out here on the frontier of the new economy, a lot of E-entrepreneurs are suddenly sending resumes to old-line companies that compensate their employees with a regular salary, not stock options.
WHEN Ari Fleischer graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1982, he had little idea of what he wanted to do with his life, so he went home to Pound Ridge, N.Y., and started sending resumes to the many big corporations in the area.
Joyce Maroney, director of the Workforce Institute at Kronos, a provider of workforce management software, says this kind of networking is essential: "If you're strictly relying on sending resumes to open positions you find on the Internet, that's the path of least resistance".
The rut of only sending resumes to total strangers must end.
I only hope that these employers make it clear in their help-wanted ads that they're requiring FB passwords from job applicants, so that the job-seekers don't waste time filling out applications and sending resumes to toadish organizations that don't deserve them.
You have to go out, send resumes, go to interviews, go to job fairs and anything related to job seeking.
They send resumes in to jobs and just never hear back.
Create a listing of those companies that you will send resumes out to.
Send resume to: Iomega Corp. 1821 West Iomega Way, Roy, UT 84067.
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