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June 27, 2001

Part of successful Jobhunting is avoiding mistakes. If you already have a Job and are looking for a new one, the last thing you want to have happen is for your current Employer to find your resume out there in cyber space eagerly searching for a new Job. Not only do they frown on this, they tend to stop your allowance and take away your lunch money.

Avoid posting to non-password protected sites. You need to choose who gets your resume, even if your resume hasn't been directly targeted to this specific Employer.

Avoid showing your ignorance of your career field, your target company, or the company's application process. All of these errors will get you disqualified in a hurry.

Don't pay for career advice or to post your resume to a Job board. If it's not free, you haven't looked hard enough on the Net.

Don't send resumes as attachments; send them in the body of the email. Would YOU open an attachment from someone you didn't know? I wouldn't.

Don't email your resume from work. Your current Employer is a logical recipient of your posted resume if you don't restrict where it's going to go. In fact, don't do anything even vaguely unprofessional from your computer at work. Your Employer owns that computer and all the files it contains. They can search through your email for incriminating evidence to fire you, or worse. Simply using company email to search for another Job is legitimate grounds for termination.

-Mark Poppen