** 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 to a large number of people just don’t work.

Just don’t do it!

We are investigating more pro-active measures we can apply in relation to this abuse of gatorlink email accounts. Please help us avoid the need to investigate and the possibility of imposing any penalties on students for engaging in this behavior.

Avoid doing this and urge your friends and colleagues who are doing it to stop!

Thank you for helping us be good citizens in the UF Engineering community.

 

Joseph N. Wilson

Associate Professor

Graduate Program Director

UF CISE Department