If you email your resume to 1000 companies, you've already lost the game before it starts! This is no way to find a good job. Plus, you already know it intuiti

If you email your resume to 1000 companies, you've already lost the game before it starts! This is no way to find a good job. Plus, you already know it intuititvely, when it happens to you, you call it spam. As a hiring manager for many years, I barely took notice of all the e-mails sent to jobs@mycompany.com. But the ones sent personally to me, from someone who has some connection (works for a competitor, uses our products, etc...) would get first class treatment. I know it's tought out there for new grads though, because what I describe kind of requires some experience (read http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/05/13/being-a-new-cs-grad-in-this-economy-sucks/ http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/05/13/being-a-new-cs-grad-... for more advice on that topic)