<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>It will not get you a job but it can expose you to others. Shoulder rubbing is usually a good thing. Most jobs are found/settled with a personal contact over a blind call/application.</div><div><br></div><div>Plus it's exposure to more information in your field.</div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 12:00 -0400, leam hall via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Besides a resume bullet? :)</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'm still working as a sysadmin, still trying to move into programming</pre><pre>more. Not sure if the ACM or IEEE provides anything that would help.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>No one would likely hire me because my resume said "ACM member", but</pre><pre>maybe it's like Toastmasters. What I learned there has helped me</pre><pre>interview well.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Leam</pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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