When I was job hunting, I had my resume online. I ran a perl program as a cronjob and had it grep the access_log for my resume page, clean up the results, and mail them to me, so I had a nice, timely indication of who was checking up on my resume! Also had a web based interface that showed me everyone that ever looked at the page.

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RE: Who's looking at my resume?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 31, 2000 at 02:40 UTC
    I'd like to see that. My resume is online as well, and someone keeps looking at it, but no one ever falls for it.
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      I'll try and dig it out. (It, like my resume, is no longer active) Might take a while (busy, not lazy!)
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      Ignore the one from 3Com... just me... :)
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RE: Who's looking at my resume?
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2000 at 22:25 UTC
    got any code that will find me another job?
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      #!/usr/bin/perl

exec("lynx http://www.dice.com");

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RE: Who's looking at my resume?
by turnstep (Parson) on Apr 07, 2000 at 21:07 UTC
    Dug up the script, dusted it off, and posted it in the Code Catacombs as Resume Logger
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RE: Who's looking at my resume?
by atch (Initiate) on Apr 05, 2000 at 07:16 UTC
    Sounds like a good idea. I also would like to see the code if you manage to dig it out.
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