Thursday, January 28, 2010

Hiring: Lessons Learned

When advertising 5 jobs in a Senegalese newspaper, I recommend telling applicants to send their dossiers to NGO_hiring@gmail.com instead of your own email address. Also, you don't need to see their diplomas and letters of good work from their employers, even though other job postings include this. If you don't, surely you will suffer a fate similar to mine - all of the out of work accountants and administrative assistants flooding your inbox with terribly-formatted CVs and 5MB scans of their college degrees and recommendation letters. This will immediately exceed capacity and prevent you from receiving any more mail, requiring you to ask the new hire to logon to your desktop and read and process all your mail, deleting as she goes.

No fun for anyone!

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