Perhaps instead of lamenting the lack of expertise, unsolicited
applications, and  insane thirst for employment on the part of job seekers
you might throw a few arrows in the direction of the Colleges and
Universities.  Colleges and Universities in general DO NOT, HAVE NOT, and
WILL NOT prepare folks for employment in the CRM world, or employment in
any world for that matter. In fact most often CRM is viewed, and discussed
(if at all) as a rather low life, read lower life form, prostitution
exercise. This was true in the Pleistocene when I was at the university and
remains true today.

CRM job seekers are trying to do what the books on finding a job tell them
they should do. After all you don't have to reply or even read their
applications. Give them a break. If anyone is at fault it would appear to
rest squarely on several shoulders. It does make me smile when I hear that
good qualified people are in very short supply and them we sit hear saying
we don't want to hear from anyone unless I ask for you application. There
is something wrong with that picture.

In another regard it is rather silly to put forth Scotty's one line resume
as the model and in the same breath to state if you were that good an
archaeologist we would already know of you. I would submit that there are a
goodly number of exceptional archaeologists that most of us have never
heard of, read Flannery from years ago on this subject.

Of course these views are my own.

Jim Chase