<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:48 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j.bengtson@mchsi.com">j.bengtson@mchsi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>If you can, go around the HR people. Find out who the tech managers are, and send your resume directly to them. You can ask them to "please forward my resume to your HR department", but you really want them to at least skim your resume first. That's where a good cover letter can be a big help.<div class="im">
<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Just letting you know, that doesn't work everywhere. Larger business (one in particular that I worked at) had only a single path for a resume to get to the hiring manager, and that was through HR. I knew the person who processed incoming resumes, and those that tried to circumvent the system would get shredded, or deleted, and never make it to the HR recruiter. My input here is only attempt to circumvent HR when you know it won't HURT your chances of getting hired. Do your research, if you can find out who the hiring manager is, also check and make sure that sending your resume to the hiring manager instead of HR does not disqualify you from the job. Sometimes going both routes (HR and the Hiring manager) might be the wise choice. It all depends on where you are applying, and what their process is.<br>