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I’m on McCain’s e-mail list and have received several messages from his campaign saying that he is “looking full-time volunteers for positions available immediately.... Campaign positions are unpaid and participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation and housing.... Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter.”
Translation: “We’ve just realized that we desperately need some campaign workers on the ground to counter Obama’s ground game juggernaut, and we need free labor, but we’re spending all our money on ads and can’t even pay your bus fare to a swing state.”
It seems late in the game to be looking for people to take on full-time unpaid jobs. These last-minute messages are in stark contrast to the stream of emails I’ve received from the Obama campaign over the last year and a half encouraging me to get involved with the local Obama volunteer group.
Very odd that they should ask for a resume and cover letter. How bad would your cv have to be for them not to accept you as a volunteer? The situation seems rife for an experimental study along the lines of studies like this one. Let's say we sent in a resume listing volunteer experience organizing a gay pride parade. Would we get a callback?
Monday, August 18, 2008
McCain Desperate for Volunteers
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Couldn't read the Wiley link.
If the definition of "swing state" this year is Indiana, resume items should include "saw The 300 seven or eight times" or "youngest of eight brothers; used to getting beat up."
DP
This is one of the funnier things I've seen recently:
Let's say we sent in a resume listing volunteer experience organizing a gay pride parade. Would we get a callback?
I think you should send it in
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