What billytea said.

Recently one of my Facebook games added a "chat" feature, which 90% of the conversation is people asking for friends. Many of them ask "can you add me because I don't know how to add you?" That's not the way to recommend yourself to me, you're going to be a bad player if you can't figure out one of the elementary mechanics of the game.

Theo - that's so annoying.

Meanwhile: I am back at work. It's 20 minutes past the hour. Zero phone calls so far. I believe that there are 3 other people in the office.

And I am sitting at the main office front desk because the real main office front desk person has the flu.

At least I was able to finagle my ride to go through the drive through at Starbucks so I have a giant coffee. (Peppermint Mocha - yum.)

Honestly- my biggest concern is that they don't irritate me. Because then I would rather not have a student and I do not hide my irritation well. And by not following fairly clear directions, they have already irritated me.

I expect about 50 - 75 apps for 1 10 hour a week job (I have had 25 so far.).

My long weekend was long enough that I forgot how to do my morning routine! Was not actually late, but was totally discombobulated.

ION, I got an email forward about "12 Branding Keys." Here are some of them: Appvertising, Coolsupmtion, and Simplexity. I am glad I am not in branding.

Julien Leparoux is riding a filly called "Sookie Stackhouse" on Thursday.

I am back at work. Also, it's snowing. Neither of these is auspicious.

Sophia, the only thing I would say is that it's possible the process is not as obvious from the outside as it is to you on the inside. But I wouldn't have any compunction about tossing those folks based on the irritation factor, given that you seem to have enough choices from among those who did figure it out.

Brenda- I had that thought, but in order to get to the job board they have to pass through a page that says the following:

How to Find a Job

You must be registered as a full-time student to apply for a job.

Look at the on-line Job Board to review open positions.

Complete a student employment application and submit it to your potential employer via email.

Follow up with the employer. Contact department to verify they received your application. Ask if you can schedule an interview.

My experience has been that people treat pages like that like terms of service. If it were me, I'd send them a link to the application.

On the other hand, maybe it's efficient to sift out the people that don't read all the steps before you need to engage with them directly.