How to sort through job applicants - make them write.

A bit of a weak blog post, but I found this interesting:

"No quality applicants from Craigslist - Even if they were qualified, every email came off as spam. Needless to say they did not receive a response."

Eh, what? Care to explain what made the inquiries spam-like? I've been responding to a select few CL job postings for part-time and/or telecommuting gigs, trying to drum up a little extra work. I know it's par for the course in this economic climate, but I'm getting virtually zero responses back. If you're gonna request an email response, at least have the damned courtesy to send a response (even an auto-responder would suffice), so I at least know my message didn't get eaten somewhere along the way.

And speaking of methods used to weed out applicants... there was one shop that gave me a login/password to some testing site, and I took this online evaluation that was some bizarre hybrid of a Mensa exam, the SAT, and a Myers-Briggs personality evaluation. I was like, WTF?!?

Still, it's a little disheartening. I don't know if my resume sucks or there are a bunch of really high caliber people pounding the pavement these days, but sometimes I feel like a total schmuck. I acknowledge that there's the non-zero probability of me being a total moron and nobody's been honest enough to clue me in, but I'd like to think I'm pretty damned qualified some at least some of the jobs I'm inquiring about.