Saturday, April 12, 2003

What Does Your Answering Machine Say to Employers?

Anyone who has called our house within the last couple weeks has been treated to an answering machine message where we state our names, and then the following:

You know what to do and when to do it!
In the past we've also set it up to say
We will work for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Please leave your message after the beep.
These probably aren't the best messages for potential employers, I've realized.

HotJobs has a link to an article about this topic, but it currently doesn't work. It may work in the future, so I'll post the link here.

Update, 2003 April 22: I'm at the Job Center, and I just checked the link. It works. Great information, too, including a good case for having a "vanilla" type of answering machine message.

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