New Job

I finally found a new job. I will be working for a large corporation providing employee health benefits consulting.

This was my first serious effort in job hunting. Before I’ve only had to ask. So, here are a few stats accumulated over the last 5 months:

• 32: employers resume sent to
• 14: interviews; 8 in person and 6 phone interviews.
• 7: rejections; most in the form a phone call.
• 4: offers for jobs I no longer wanted.
• 3: attractive offers.

That’s a 44% response rate, if you don’t count the leads that didn’t result in an interview. I suppose it also means that there was less than 10% chance that I would receive an offer from a job applied for. But after an interview, there was 50% chance that I would receive an offer, half of which turned out to be unacceptable.

Let me know if you’d like more specific information, and I’d be happy to share it with you.