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One Job Seeker's Ruse To Check Out His Competition
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“Eric Auld wants a full-time job. He completed a master’s program in 2009 and has a part-time job as an adjunct lecturer, but that provides barely enough to cover the bills.
After a fruitless job search — endlessly scanning Monster.com and Craigslist and tweaking resumes and cover letters — he grew more curious about his competitors. So he created a fake Craigslist ad for an administrative assistant position and, in one day, received 653 responses from applicants with a wide range of education and experience …”
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For a while I even let myself imagine I had died—
and that was all right, at least for a couple
of minutes, until it really sank in: Dead.
As I was lying there with my eyes closed,
just after I’d imagined what it might be like
if in fact I never got up again, I thought of you.
I opened my eyes then and got right up
and went back to being happy again.
—from “For Tess” by Raymond Carver, Poetry, February 1985
Above, Tess Gallagher pictured at Raymond Carver’s grave. Carver and Gallagher were married June 17, 1988. Carver died weeks later, on August 2, 1988.
(Source: tastefullyoffensive, via jennilee)
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