I have been letting my resume age more because I'm just not feeling up to dealing with the job hunt. That means that I don't get nearly as many emails... but still. I get dribs and drabs. I happened to find one that had been filtered as spam, but it wasn't clear why -- everything seemed to match okay, so I have no idea what the filter complained on ( Read more... )

So... this weekend, I was sent two more jobs by a single recruiter -- both of which are in Boston and are only 5 month contracts. *sigh* Thanks a lot ( Read more... )

I didn't really check the looking-for-work email for almost two weeks. That was my bad, but when I was that disheartened about a lot of things, it was not a good time to be bothered looking at what people sent me. (I didn't update my resume at the job sites, either, so that I would fall out of sight with most people, as well.) Now that my mood can ( Read more... )

I didn't feel like looking yesterday... and today, I wasn't in a mood to check my messages. I just have a general yuck feeling towards the whole thing, which isn't really aided by the fact that where I work now is really starting to depress me ( Read more... )

I was going to wait until the end of the holiday and sum up all the jobs at once, since the American recruiters probably took off yesterday as I did and then have today off. However, this one that came in was reason to post earlier than I intended. It's one of the best written requirements specs I've seen and includes quite a few things that I don' ( Read more... )

Nothing extremely notable, other than the hit-miss ratio still sucks ( Read more... )

I had joked with one friend that I would start blogging (I guess that would be journalling, here) the craziness of dealing with recruiters and the strange things I get sent. Lo and behold, I started doing just that... so they calm down for a day. I would wager that this is because of the upcoming holiday on the 4th and people extending the weekend ( Read more... )

Today brings us a new joy in problems with recruiters. It is already a problem that a lot of recruiter jobs have been off-shored as it appears that most of them are not given an adequate understanding of how large states are in the US. From what they see on the map (assuming they are even given one or allowed to go to a map site), it doesn't seem ( Read more... )

Today, we get one more for Boston -- may even be the same one. Two for Richmond -- one however being a Contract, the other being for a company I'm not keen on working for. At least they both offered something I would do. It's a shame on the contract one, but maybe he'll reply saying that I read it wrong. After all, it could be a non-contract ( Read more... )

So I'm thinking I might start a daily tally of the locations of jobs that recruiters send me. keep in mind that my resume notes that the only viable locations are Richmond, VA and, if people want to relocate me at their expense, Raleigh/Durham, NC or anywhere in TN with only 20-25 miles as a max commute. (I may even look at KY for some of the folk ( Read more... )