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Saturday, January 24, 2004 ( 8:43 AM ) axmc Basic Internet ResourcesThe Job Hunters Bible is a great resource and starting point for PBJ members. # ( 8:39 AM ) axmc Organizing E-Mail to Dodge SpamWe continually advise PBJ members NOT to use their permanent personal email such as myhome@aol.com on their job search, as it will be trashed with spam. A good resource has been to create a web based email just for your job search. For example, myjobsearch@yahoo.com is web based (which means you can check your email at the library or any web browser connected to the internet) , and disposable. However, as good as the filters are on Yahoo, you will soon get 15 emails and 50 spams per day, 20 of which will get through -- so you have 35 emails, 20 of which are still spam. Plus, you have no way to track or know where the person got your email. A free site Incamail permits you to have a series of email addressess that you can use to freely distribute on resumes or assign to specific search firms or sites. Incamail permits you to have up to 25 email addresses. If I picked a username of amcc49, I could set up amcc49.hotjobs@incamail.com amcc49.design_engineer@incamail.com amcc49.sales_management@incamail.com amcc49.ohio@incamail.com When I log on to my main account at incamail.com, all of the responses will be sorted by folder, as shown in this example. If one of the addresses becomes spam-bait - in other words a spammer gets amcc49.ohio@incamail.com and it starts to fill up, simply kill the folder, and create another address - maybe something like amcc49.ohio_leads@incamail.com . Then you can re-send your resume to those sites that had the old address ( I know you kept good records for followup ;) # |
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