Not long ago, I spent a bit more than an hour creating a wishlist (at wishlist.com). Today I went to update it (since we got some DVDs over the weekend) and I accidentally deleted it.
You see, the were the first entry duplicated the second entry, so I deleted the first entry, not realizing it was a listing for the ENTIRE wishlist. Now, I think there’s some poor design on wishlist’s part, but mostly this was operator error.
I’m not sure I have the energy to recreate that list.
I know this is a terrible job market . . . but that means it is all the more necessary for applicants to pay attention to the advertisements. I’ve written about this before, but things have gotten a lot more intense this time.
We’re hiring an administrative assistant, having been without as a budget-cutting measure for a year now. We’re very clear about what we want in an ideal applicant. And, as usual, I am very specific about what I want from applicants: a cover letter, a resume, and salary expectations. (Don’t believe me? Here’s the post, at least until it expires on CL.)
I got 25 responses within an hour of posting the ad. And 120 in six hours, when I stopped checking my office email. Today I have another 50+ to input. My guess is that I’ll have 300 resumes to review before the weekend is over. Look at that figure for a moment: three HUNDRED resumes.
I said it before: you’ll get a lot further in the process if you write your cover letter to me. But you are now going to get an automatic rejection if you don’t include the items I specifically requested: a cover letter, a resume, and your salary expectations. I
I started out willing to ask people for a cover letter/writing sample — now I just mark the person ‘no’. I may lose a great candidate, but I doubt it. In fact, my impressions is that the people who don’t bother to compose a cover letter have little or NO relevant experience.
What a waste.
My mother is very much loved. Occasionally, she’s not sure we really mean it — and this year’s ‘Mom’s Day’ cards kind of say it all:
Yes, that is Kali-Ma, aka The Destroyer.
I just came back from a weekend with my family in San Francisco. I flew down to heavy fog, and left in 70* sunshine.
That is the city of my youth in a nutshell: a dichotomy of dynamic tension.
Despite Mercury retrograde, Facing North has been updated! It’s a great collection (as always) of honest opinions about items of interest to our community. I’ve got an even dozen reviews of books, ‘tools’, and CDs, some old, some hot off the presses.
Michele Morgan and I did a fun interview a few months back, and that’s been posted for you to enjoy.
Mark Lesser wrote a couple of articles for me, each based on the idea that doing less means you’ll do more. It’s a groundbreaking idea in this day and age of busyness. My review of his book (Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less) will be in next month’s update. I can tell you now that it is making em think very carefully about certain assumptions I’ve been making for a decade or more.
Brooks Palmer gave me a great article (Clutter Busting!) which feels timely for all of us looking at our spring cleaning rituals.
All in all, a nice bunch to add to one of the largest collections of reviews of interest to the Pagan and alternative spirituality community. (And yes, it is free.)
Check it out!
A key component of frugal living is: Live within your means. One way to do that is to shed that which you do not need and consciously simplify your surroundings.
Mercury went retrograde on May 7th. What has that meant for me? Sleep deprivation and interruption.
I’m not much of one for celebrating a new source of reading — at least not here — but I have to rave about a new blog I just stumbled upon. Evnissyen, Lover of Strife is A character from the epic Mabinogion, whose tendency to bash heads first and ask questions later leads to a terrible war between Britain and Ireland. Also, a modern-day, kind of high-maintenance, very male Witch from Houston, Texas. He can often be found not keeping his mouth shut and taking creative liberties with What Really Happened.
I’m sure this is making the rounds on email, but I found it too endearing, and frightening, not to share with y’all.