We're not really in the loop. But, for example, I do know that in three weeks, four people were hired from our Internet postings. Scott Ferguson, who relocated to Colorado from New Jersey, scored a senior programmer analyst position with Cray Computers in Colorado Springs by responding to their Internet job listing. He also got five other interviews. He advises that to avoid this problem, apply to specific jobs instead of posting your resume.
Employers often have difficulty with the quantity of responses.
Jonathan Corbet of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder recently posted several jobs for his department on Internet. When you advertise a job electronically, you tend to get buried in resumes coming back. A lot of people just automatically send a resume in response to every position they see, without really bothering to read about the job or its requirements. Not so, believes University of Denver's Andrew Burt, professor of mathematics and computer science. He went through both avenues to fill a departmental position.