Marla Parker's Weblog

Thank You LinkedIn. This is the first time I've seriously used linkedin for anything other than keeping track of friends who switch companies and/or change their email addresses. I did not use my extended network on linkedin, though now that I think about it perhaps I should have... But what I did do produced 6-8 resumes, most of them good, and including the two interns that I have hired, both from Mills College. Did you know you can export your contacts list from linkedin? So that is what I did: exported my direct contacts and sent them all the same email via bcc. Ellen Spertus forwarded my mail to a grad student candidate, who has accepted the offer, and she in turn forwarded it to an undergrad student candidate, who accepted the offer for the undergrad intern job.

Two candidates that I did not get to interview in person, though I would have if things had spilled over into January, you might consider if you have a need for a part-time intern during school, full time during the summer.

They are Son Pham, a senior at SJSU graduating December 2006, with work experience at four different companies and a long list of language and technology skills; and Khanh Nguyen, a MS/CS student (May, 2007) also at SJSU, who has some open source experience.

My recruiter only sent me four resumes directly, but she was very helpful when it came to generating the offer and associated adminsitrivia. And she did indirectly generate a few resumes more from job boards where the req was posted at local universities. Overall I only got sixteen resumes, and screened maybe a dozen, but I'm very happy to have hired two.