{"id":189257,"date":"2010-04-28T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/28\/a-personal-anecdotal-economic-data-point\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:13:00","slug":"a-personal-anecdotal-economic-data-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/28\/a-personal-anecdotal-economic-data-point\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Anecdotal Economic Data Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, I sent out an update of my resume including my brief stint as a tech writer<\/a> (also here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Basically, it needs to be included, because I want to plug the hole in my employment history, so something with “2010” in it is useful, but I don’t<\/span> want to get a bunch calls from recruiters who do not look past the key word search calling me with technical writer positions,*<\/sup> so I listed my title is listed as, “Developer\/Writer.”<\/p>\n

It is true and accurate. “Developer” was my official title, and writer was what I did, but by avoiding the dreaded term “technical writer”, I won’t trigger a keyword search.<\/p>\n

In any case, on to the data point<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I got a very<\/span> strong response to my resume mailing,\u2020<\/sup> perhaps 50% more responses by phone or email that happened with my last resume drop in October 2009.<\/p>\n

So, I do have a sense of things picking up.<\/p>\n

BTW, if you want to look at my resume, you can see it, as well as an 8 page complete CV that covers everything back to college, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>At least not ones from out of town. I’m not willing to travel to be a tech writer, but I’m willing to commute daily to be one.<\/span>
\u2020<\/sup>I use a shell account at Panix.com<\/a>, who I highly recommend, and I have a whole series of Unix scripts that allow me to send a few hundred emails, or do a mail merge into an email, with attached files, with each recipient getting an individualized “To:” header. (I.e. no BCC:) If you are interested, drop me a line<\/a>, and I will send them to you.<\/span>\u2021<\/sup>
\u2021<\/sup>And there is no need to tell me that it’s ugly<\/span> C shell script. I already know this<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, I sent out an update of my resume including my brief stint as a tech writer (also here). Basically, it needs to be included, because I want to plug the hole in my employment history, so something with “2010” in it is useful, but I don’t want to get a bunch calls from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}