Reply to: Online CV.

[zara_backdog]

Zara - I always read your name as "Zara Back Door".

I always think "Yay! Go on girl!"

Sorry

Thats OK - I;ve had worse

[TheFaQQer]

Zara - I always read your name as "Zara Back Door".

I always think "Yay! Go on girl!"

Sorry

Is it time to wheel out the "how dirty are you" survey again (that gave everyone a nasty virus if they opened it in IE)?

[norrahe]

Zara - I always read your name as "Zara Back Door".

I always think "Yay! Go on girl!"

Sorry

Well as we're off topic, i always read "doggy Styles" as dodgy stiles

no offence

[chef]

Zara - I always read your name as "Zara Back Door".

I always think "Yay! Go on girl!"

Sorry

post of the day

[SallyAnne]

Most have my roles have been agents calling me. Only one has been due to applying direct to something that was advertised.

Zara - I always read your name as "Zara Back Door".

I always think "Yay! Go on girl!"

Sorry

[expat]

I agree. I have had my Ltd co website for over 5 years and it has lots of case stidues etc packed with great key words that Google finds no trouble. I have had 1 paid day of work from my website in that time. I have had many Engineers stuck for inspiration emailing me or calling me what they always intended to be free advice. Early on I made the mistake of going to a supposed reputable client and looking back on it I told him everything he needed to do to NOT hire me!

Now I just say "if you want to know that, you need to pay me first". They never do........

Ah yes, I have had many calls and emails from people wanting a job, a free introduction to clients, a free supply of vendor's manuals, free training, free answers to tech questions, free help in coding .....
and wanting me to pay to be included in their listing, or buy printer supplies, buy CD-Roms of addresses that I can spam, take out health care with somebody I've never heard of......
not to mention apply for a permanent job that is no match for my skills on salary too low in a country that I don't have a visa for.....

Compared to all that, I really don't mind being called by agents even if I don't want the contract that they might have

[Doggy Styles]

it was THIS big

Wow! That's a goer. I've still got my fishing umbrella.

Back on topic, I once put my CV on Jobswerve or some such, but I didn't even get any nuisance calls. So I removed it and I've never bothered since.

[norrahe]

Catch anything?

it was THIS big

[Doggy Styles]

have done it and all i got out of it was a fishing call from an umbrella company.

Catch anything?

[norrahe]

have done it and all i got out of it was a fishing call from an umbrella company.

[Doggy Styles]

I don't do it.

[zara_backdog]

Most have my roles have been agents calling me. Only one has been due to applying direct to something that was advertised.

[TheFaQQer]

I dont agree.

I've never once contacted an agent with my CV, but I HAVE posted it on Jobserve/Jobsite.

Therefore, I deduce that every single one of my gigs have resulted directly from doing this.

Obviously I've had hundreds of calls from the nobbas, but in general I reckon agencies get the online CV's, store them, then phone you when a job comes in.

At least that's what's happened for me.

But I'm in quite a cliquie Oracle Apps world.

Almost WSS.

I've sent an up-to-date CV when an agent has contacted me, but the vast, vast majority of my work has come from applications to Jobserve. I've had a couple of word-of-mouth / already spoken to the agency jobs, but they are rare for me.

But that may be what a niche market does for you.

[ratewhore]

Obviously I've had hundreds of calls from the nobbas...

That's what I'm trying to avoid.

[SallyAnne]

I dont agree.

I've never once contacted an agent with my CV, but I HAVE posted it on Jobserve/Jobsite.

Therefore, I deduce that every single one of my gigs have resulted directly from doing this.

Obviously I've had hundreds of calls from the nobbas, but in general I reckon agencies get the online CV's, store them, then phone you when a job comes in.

At least that's what's happened for me.

But I'm in quite a cliquie Oracle Apps world.