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Grandpa, I finally made the Wall Street Journal -- by blogging







Grandpa, I finally made the Wall Street
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Grandpa, I finally made the Wall Street
Journal -- by bl0gging
04/14/2004 03:45 AM

Two months ago, I wrote up my experience of sending out a resume, only to see it appear in my spam folder half an hour later. Last week, I got a call from a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Kris Maher, who was doing a story on job hunting and spam filters, and who had found my post via Google. He interviewed me over the phone, and unlike some of my other interactions with journalists, what he wrote bears a reasonable resemblance to what I told him, although he didn't go with my suggestion for the story hook -- the increasing unreliability of email. Here is what he wrote, quoted from a freely available copy of the story as syndicated to The Arizona Republic, of all places: Tim Bishop started to worry about spam filters after he e-mailed a resume in February. He was shocked to discover 30 minutes after hitting the send button that a copy he sent to himself turned up in his own spam folder. Today, Mr. Bishop, a 42-year-old president of a software-development company in Berkeley, Calif., runs every resume and cover letter through three spam filters on his computer before e-mailing them. "I figure if it passes those three filters, it's probably OK," Mr. Bishop says. I think I wrote the story more engagingly, but less completely, but I'll let our readers be the judge of that. An amusing side note to the story is that my grandfather is an old line businessman who worked for the same company for 50 years, and even after retiring he reads the Wall Street Journal cover-to-cover almost every day. For years he has asked about my career, and seemed slightly puzzled at the (to him) rapid succession of different jobs at different companies, most of which never appeared on the pages of the WSJ. I have certainly personally done nothing newsworthy enough to get my name in the WSJ. Imagine his surprise tomorrow morning when he sees my name in the WSJ, not for any accomplishment, but because I self-published a story of my experiences with email, resumes, and spam. P.S. For the curious, and especially for those who are hiring, my resume can be found online, avoiding all that difficulty with spam and email. My partners and I shut down our software development company at the end of last year, and I'm currently looking for a...




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