On Jun 22, 2005, at 9:03 AM, John Ferrell wrote:

>> if the number of resumes coming in greatly exceeds the ability of any
>> one person to look at them, I'm not sure what the alternative would 
>> be.

The problem happens about when your company becomes big and well known
enough to start getting an influx of unsolicited resumes.  That is,
people send you resumes "I'm great!  I want a job!" rather than 
repsonding
to a particular and specific known job opening.  If the applicant can't
be bothered directing their resume to the "right" place, it becomes
HR's job to do so.  Unfortunately, HR isn't very good at it; they're
merely "better than nothing."

BillW
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