[Discuss] work search question

[worley at alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)]

> From: Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] work search question
>
> I did not purposely place the additional question marks.? I can't find the message in question.? However I know what you mean.? Could be Apple Mail + listserv.
>
> Solid standard English?? Who's standard?? Usually I don't use caps or double space.? This is about as adult and standard as I can get.? ;-)

I was excessively terse there.  But above I'm quoting your message as it
comes through BLU, so you can see that there's some sort of problem.
(My current guess is that your mailer is putting 0xA0 (NO-BREAK SPACE)
as the first of two spaces after '.' etc. and the BLU software turns it
into '?'.)

But my point is that looking for work is, to a great extent, a matter of
presentation, and you want to ask, with every communication, what will
it look like and what will the person who receives it think of it?

To an extent, potential employees are allowed more latitude.  But
headhunters always require an interview where they can get a good look
at you before they recommend you to anyone.  This gets more important
when you're a consultant, because you're not likely to be working for
them for that long and they don't want to invest effort if you're
difficult to deal with.

Dale