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In article <4imtum$42g@tin.monsanto.com> gathib@camlot.monsanto.com (Glenn A Thibert) writes:

>Taken from Jon M. Ferns's log...
>>My company is looking to hire individuals that frequent this USENET channel.  
>>I would like feedback as to the objection of my company posting jobs 
>available 
>>(discretely) here.
>   Not a chance!  You posted this to over FOURTY god damn groups!  If you have 
>a Lotus Notes job, then post it in the Lotus Notes group, sure.  But we will 
>NOT put up with ads for every other type of computer job under the sun in 
>these groups!  Just like the cobol folks dont want to hear about jobs related 
>to Lotus Notes!  Either target your ads to the individual groups where they 
>are most relavent, or take them to the general Jobs groups and leave it at 
>that.


This, I think, is typical.  The problem is frankly that Internet goes all over 
the world and does so indiscriminately.  The companies that flood the Internet 
with computer-generated postings "FL-DC-POWERBUILDER..." are painfully obvious 
and annoying.

What you should do instead is to set up a Web page and invite people to browse 
your listings if they want to.  Perhaps you can set up a system where 
interested parties fill out an electronic form and send information to you, so 
that your coffers are full and you can send out more specific reminder- 
messages to INDIVIDUALS when a particular request comes over the transom to 
you.

Another thing to consider is, what are you going to DO with the resume that 
comes in from Taiwan, when you're in Kentucky USA?  :-/  You can be sure 
you'll get them, and from Podunk Timbuktu as well.  

A scatter-shot approach to recruiting is painfully easy to do on the Internet 
... but painful to receive!  A more sophisticated approach is also possible and 
that's what you need to do.

/mr/