Here's a suggestion for the future. Put a copyright notice on your resume, something like Copyright (C) 2000 John Q. Public. All rights reserved. No duplication or distribution permitted without the author's permission. That way if they do give it to someone without your permission, you can hold the flame of copyright law to their feet to get them to back off. I'm not sure whether this would work, but it may be worth a try. Any feedback? Eric On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:38:55AM -0600, John J. Trammell wrote: > Hello LUGgers: > > I'm a newbie in the job search arena, and could use some advice > on how to avoid a certain situation in the future. > > Say, hypothetically speaking, that you have a friend that just > got a new job at company Foo via job-finding company Quux (rhymes > with "sucks", as in "rat bastard fuckers die die die") Jobfinders > Inc. > > This friend encourages you to apply for another position that's > open at Foo; you do this, and in addition you ask the boys at Quux > to see if they can locate some position for you. > > You find yourself fucked, because what does Quux do but send your > resume off to Foo? Now Foo wants to hire you, but Quux says that > Foo owes them some sort of finder's fee, even though you have a > contact of your own at Foo, and really didn't get anything from > Quux. Foo won't hire you because this fee is exorbitant, and > why the hell should Quux get dime one anyhow? > > So how do other people manage this situation? My thought is that > I should have made some agreement with Quux from the beginning that > they had to have my permission to send my resume to Foo; once this > was done, Foo was "theirs" and if they found a job there, they were > entitled to the fee. This would leave me free to search on my own > at Bar and Baz, Inc. > > Any other ways out of this? > > Regards, > J > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >