Re: Job Opening for System/Database Analyst

On 3 Dec 1995 18:21:46 GMT in comp.databases.ms-access, davisexp@ix.netcom.com (Joseph R. Davis ) wrote: >You may be missing some points here. I can think of several reasons >for requiring snail mail responses: >1) security and validation of identities--it is a lot easier to > validate the existence of someone with a physical address than > with an email address. The email thing is only a first point of contact, you would still need to attend an interview, etc, just like in the old fashioned world. > Also, many companies want their job > application files to be highly secure, for internal or for > legal reasons, but their internet connection is not secure enough. So why post on the net in the first place? > What if you think you are replying to a job announcement, but > instead you post back to the newsgroup? Or what if you email a job > application and somehow the security of your internet > connection is compromised and someone else finds out and tells your > current employer? Tough! Who says that when your application gets to it's destination, someone there (a freind of your own boss and also a member od personnel dept at that firm) won't read it and let the cat out of the bag? >2) timing--there are a lot of people on the net who might reply to a > posting for the thrill or harassment value who might not go to the > trouble of sending a letter. Also, people who send email tend to > expect replies faster than those who send letters, and many HR > departments are not able to respond within those expectations, for > a variety of reasons. There are people who just like writing letters, you know, they cut out bits of newspaper print and stick them on bits of paper :-) >3) the stuff that most people send via email is not formatted well and > is difficult to read, relative to the typical resume. There is no > standard yet for formatting. For example, you can't really assume > your reader can read a Word document--they may be using Word Perfect > or Ami. Fort that matter, you really can't assume they are > set-up to deal with enclosures. Furthermore, although format > translators save re-typing, they don't get all the > formatting correct, so if you are concerned about how your document > looks, you shouldn't use a translator. Maybe soon, we will all > start using something like Adobe Acrobat which will fix this. are you seriously saying that wp or ami cannot read a word doc? or vice versa, the add can read, "send resume in wfw2.0 format" or "send resume in write format", whay should someone be rejected just because they don't own a top flight WP, a resume (or what I call a CV) can be plin text, formatted with nothing but spaces, it doesn't need to be fancy unless you're applying to the post of DTP expert. >4) the person who posts to the newsgroup and has the email address is > typically not the person who must review the applications. Again, I say "TOUGH", they shouldn't post the damn thing in the first place, in any case, this group is not called alt.jobs.offered is it? >In general, I'd be a little less hasty about drawing conclusions about >potential employers from their email policies. There are a lot of >other more important things to consider, and some of the most >enlightened contributors to this newsgroup come from companies with no >email or Web support at all--they do it on their own. In this day and age, any company that doesn't have e-mail, etc is quite backward and I for one, wouldn't want to work for such a company. Moral, if you want replies on a nice bit of paper, then advertise the post in a news PAPER, not a news GROUP. (jeeze, if they can't afford an ad in the paper, they can't afford me:) \\|||/ / \\ C o o D -----------------ooO--u--Ooo------------------------------- To every rule there is an exception, and vice versa. trevor@microprism.com - Microprism (UK) Limited