Bravo Mr. Chase.
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> Sent:         Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:50 AM
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> Subject:      Re: Job solicitations
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> 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
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