Opportunity Knocks… A lot!

In the last few weeks, I’ve had a rash of opportunities come my way via email (the majority of which were job opportunities from 3rd party recruiters, but there were also 2 different co-founding opportunities)… It occurred to me that politely responding to offers that were clearly a bad fit was fairly time consuming. I don’t know if it will do any good, but I whipped up a page detailing the kinds of things that interest me.

Incidentally, this is tangentially related to a feature that I always advocated for at Jobster… The “what I want” part of the online resume. In times past, resumes were sent directly to employers didn’t need this. If I send you a resume, the “what I want” portion of it is generally the “objective” (“To find a position that gives me the opportunity to grow professionally blah blah blah”). As the resume has evolved into something more generalized that you post publicly and then wait for the opportunities to roll in, it seems like it needs a more expanded section detailing what opportunities the job seeker really wants.

For the record– I’m NOT a job seeker. I don’t want a “job” (though I suppose I’d jump at the right one). This site isn’t a resume (but it has enough resume-esque information to suffice), so I figure I’d add a page that details what sort of offers I’d entertain.

What do you think? Dumb idea? Will it fend off recruiters who aren’t sharp enough not to offer me entry level .NET coding positions?

  • http://mondhandy.de/ Björn

    In my experience recruiters simply don’t care about what you want, so it is almost a wasted effort. Typically they will look at what their clients want (the companies they recruit for), and if you have the respective skills, they will ask you if you are interested in the job.

    The only thing that might help is removing things you don’t want from your resume.

    I’d love to see a job engine that makes recruiters care for what I want…

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    Hey, from one entreprenuer named Tony Wright to another one – can I get bumped up on the beta list for Rescue Time? I can’t wait to try that thing.

  • john

    You’re on the right track. The beauty part about specifying “what I want” is that it provides something everyone can talk about. If you get a bogus non-sharp recruiter, at the very least one would be able to say: “Um, did you happen to notice what I really want . . . ?”

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