[sclug] Any work going?

[Matthew Browning]

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On Thursday 29 May 2003 14:50, martin summers wrote:
> Yup _ I'd agree with all of that !
>
> By the way, how did you decide which companies from Yellow pages you
> would like to work for ? (it's not always clear what a lot of
> companies do unless you look through their web site etc....)
> Just curious as your method was the one I planned to use, but could
> never decide which company I would liek to work for......Mind you,
> you say "ones that might employ you", so are are you implying that
> they may be companies you might noty like to work for ?
>

Make your decision afterwards.

I used HTML::TokeParser to mung details straight from web pages; 
companies included were all of those in the (geographical) area I was 
looking for found under the YP sections: software.*, internet.* etc.

Filtering was subject to the following:

i.   If it was hard to locate details, they are out.
ii.  If I arbitrarily didn't like the look of them - out.
iii. No large financial institutions ( been there before - yuck! ).

The important thing is to cast the net as wide as possible.  For 
unsolicited enquiries I reckon you can expect about a 1% return.

A greater number of responses empowers *you* to make decisions, rather 
than be at the mercy of some recruiter who phones you up asking if you 
have any experience with ASP[1]

Matthew Browning

[1] Only very bad ones ;)
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