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Roger, please look at my blog, http://dougneeper.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/companies-that-offer-to-get-you-a-job-for-a-fee/. I think this will address your question re the recruiter. I ‘hear’ you as being on the verge of asking another question though, and that’s should someone spend $X, to create a personal marketing campaign. You have to weigh the costs / benefits, and just like your observation [...]
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I belong to an national organization, the Financials Executives Networking Group (FENG). This is an organization of Director / Controller or above finance / accounting professionals. One of the benefits you get from joining (no cost to join), is a nightly newsletter emailed to you by the group’s Chairman, Matt Bud. Oftentimes, the newsletter contains [...]
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DFN: The past keeps having an impact on the present / future. In Rome, they’re trying to build a new E-W metro line, and the need to create stations is forcing builders to get archaeologist buyoff that the building site is not of historical significance. Hard to do in Rome, particulartly on this E-W route, [...]
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DFN: I’ll allow as how good / bad references would be a factor in whether ‘you’ got the job or not. However, the main reason you didn’t get the job (and believe me I not gotten plenty of jobs) is that at some level the hiring manager / prospective co-workers didn’t like you, didn’t see [...]
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