It would depend on the agreement you have with Quux - my contract house calls me to ask me about a position before ever sending my resume over. Also, when I thought about looking at a different contract house, knowing that the two companies are competitors, I told the new company that there were certain firms they were NOT allowed to represent me at - knowing that those firms were very large clients of my original firm. In the end, I chose not to go with the new firm, I don't feel that they had a really good grasp of what my resume actually said I could do, and seemed not to listen to what kind of position I was looking for. So it wasn't a good match for me, even though they are a really good venue for various friends of mine. Liz On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jason DeStefano wrote: > How about "Warning: Plagurism punishable by death"? > > > At 06:55 AM 12/2/00 -0600, you wrote: > >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 > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >tclug-list mailing list > >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Imagination is intelligence having fun... e-mail: kethry at winternet.com URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html