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Phillip Blanchard
 Post subject: Where Time Has No Meaning
PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:24 pm 
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LANSING, Mich. — Tom Campbell, publisher of a small newspaper in Owosso, Mich., gave high school students a glimpse of what his newspaper is looking for when it fills journalism jobs. His paper is the oldest family-owned sheet in the state. The family has had it since 1895.
Know how to write, know how to use technology and be ready to do any job that needs to be done. Errors in cover letters? Piercings for jewelry? Tattoos? Better not at this paper. ... (Career Strategies for Journalists)

“Our policy at the Argus-Press is no piercings except the ears and then, not for the guys. That’s our policy. If that’s important to you, go somewhere else.”

*** If that's important to you, Mr. Campbell, you're in the wrong business. ***

“We get hundreds of resumes for a $10-an-hour job at the Argus-Press, so we can be really picky.”

*** Not really. What you have is hundreds of résumés from people willing to work for $10 an hour. ***
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onceahack
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“We get hundreds of resumes for a $10-an-hour job at the Argus-Press, so we can be really picky.”

Phillip Blanchard wrote:
*** Not really. What you have is hundreds of résumés from people willing to work for $10 an hour. ***


True. Which means not that you can be picky so much as you have to be.
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Not all piercings are visible in public. Does management schedule regular nipple and genital inspections to ensure that no one is slipping a Prince Albert past the receptionist?
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I have tattoos on my upper arms. I guess that would eliminate me right away if I showed up for the interview in a tank top.
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