I was on the other side on this one once. I received a resume from a GREAT programmer that I knew was looking for work when we were searching for new talent. He had all of the skills we needed. He gave me a copy of his resume and I turned it in. When interview time came I was even sitting on the panel. He never was notified and didn't show up of course. When I questioned it, I was told that they would not consider resumes that were received outside of official channels. I told him next time to buy a stamp.

Tracy

>Tracy;
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>One "sure fire way to get your foot in the door", is to give a resume to someone you know who works for a company that you are interested in. I tried that several times with no success. One person I knew and had worked with had an open slot and wanted me to work for him. We worked well together as electronics engineers.
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>He presented my resume and I never heard from the HR department. My qualifications were a perfect match for the open position. He and I were unable to do anything about the HR department. The HR Empire strikes back!
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>Tom
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>>I don't think they could afford to hire the staff it would require to be courteous everytime they post one more job...it is a sad state of affairs to be sure. You cannot tell if a corporation even received your resume with no feedback. For all you know, it could have gone into file 13 by the mailroom clerk...
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>>>I can certainly sympathize with dealing with the flood of resumes, but whatever happened to common courtesy?
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>>>>I know of one company that filled a position about 6 months ago. They quit sending out thank you or any type of acknowledgement letters after receiving resumes because during their last posted position, they received over 1000 resumes. Now THAT is competition!
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>>>>>>What is bad, is that you never get any replies from anyone for any jobs you apply for... not one......
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>>>>>I noticed that during my recent search. Used to be, you'd at least get a polite form letter 'thank you for your interest - we'll keep your resume on file' sort of response.
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>>>>>These days: nada.