** a request ** - coordinating CISE Master's students unsolicited OPS requests
Dear Students: tl;dr: Don’t send spam emails to UF faculty in an attempt to get an OPS job! There is a small group of CISE graduate students, primarily Master’s students who seem to believe that if they send unsolicited email to a large number of faculty members, advertising their background and skills, they will be likely to find employment. Sadly, they are wrong. When spam of this sort is sent to faculty members around the college, they generally ignore it. But when more than one or more than five or ten such messages are received, their thought is that we at the CISE department, and especially I as the Graduate Program Director, are not doing our jobs. They complain to us about what we are doing with these students. Sending mail of this sort does *not* yield results, at least not the desired results. One almost never finds a job this way. Look to the grad student blog and other resources to find people who are *advertising* for applicants. Cold calls via email sent t