Caveat Lector

Three bombs dropped yesterday, plus self-insertion into ALA’s job-seeker database. (Points to OCLC’s application system for being remarkably simple. Email cover letter plus résumé, get back a link to their EEO page that also serves as acknowledgment of app receipt. Pity the link from the email redirects three times, but I’m not complaining too loudly as the redirects were actually functional.)

Print apps today, and some of those are lulus. For example. Why on $DEITY’s green earth does anyone need five professional references out of me? It’s not that I don’t have them (I’ve got more than that if I really need them), but sheesh, overkill much?

And this bit from a couple of places about “explicitly address[ing] how [my] education, relevant experience and other relevant qualifications meet the responsibilities and qualifications for this vacancy” in the cover letter frosts my britches a bit, I must say. Dudes and dudettes, isn’t that why I’m sending you a résumé? But, yeah, I’ll give ’em the bullet points, since that’s what they seem to want.

Eh, well. Nifty jobs out there, at least; there isn’t one I’m applying for that I wouldn’t be proud and happy to land. The trick, of course, is landing one.