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"Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for... those jobs don't get filled by people emailing in resumes." To: board@ge.com From: wannabeceo@gmail.com
by pchristensen 19y ago
"Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for... those jobs don't get filled by people emailing in resumes."
To: board@ge.com
From: wannabeceo@gmail.com
Attachment: Resume.doc
Dear Board,
Being your CEO sounds like a great job. Please take me under consideration. I have attached my resume. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Wannabe
CEOs have resumes so their credentials can be reviewed, but that's not how they are chosen.
- tptacek 19y agoFor what it's worth, I agree that mailing resumes is a dumb way to try to get a job. But then, you can read that same advice in "What Color Is Your Parachute?", which outdates Seth Godin by about eight hundred years.
- pchristensen 19y agoBut then what on anyone's blog hasn't ever been said by anyone before?