I definitely appreciate motivated job applicants (the more effort you show in your application, the more time we are likely to invest with you), but if you walk into a small development shop without an invitation or appointment it’s not likely to go the way you hoped. People are busy doing stuff and there likely isn’t an in-house recruiter or similar to meet with you.
To paraphrase one of my colleagues, it’s like sending someone a note on an online dating site then showing up the next day at their house.
Yeah, awkward.
(It’s happened several times in the past few months.)
Is it more or less creepy if one such job applicant finds your post about creepy job applicants and then leaves a comment telling you that I hope it isn’t creepy to reach out to you through your blog?
Perhaps, it is a mitigating circumstance that I found the post through a tweet while searching for an address to follow up on the submission of my resume which seemed to be received with interest and was subsequently pursued.
Similarly, the inclusion of an example of recent work may add some substance – (leaving the politics involved aside of course). For your consideration – http://apps.facebook[...]-the-scales/
I am interested in reading how this gauges on the job applicant motivated/creepy scale.