Nobody looks forward to a job hunt.
Anyone who has ever hit Craigslist or Monster.com knows what fun lies in store: hours upon hours of prowling through hundreds of job listings to find a handful that might be relevant or promising, and hours upon hours of revising resumes and drafting cover letters. Dozens of emails and inquiries that go unreturned, interviews that fall through, and companies that disappoint. A new job hunt is the highlight of everyone’s year—if the rest of the year consists solely of root canals, stubbed toes and breakups.
The process is not much better for the people on the other side of the equation—recruiters—who find themselves on the receiving end of hundreds of resumes and cover letters, only a minority of which will yield remotely suitable candidates. It’s a painful, boring, inefficient slog.
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May 24, 2017 at 06:07PM
from Jordan French
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