Dispatches from the Ether

I apply to many, many jobs per week, and the vast majority are through the corporate websites of the major Hollywood studios. The response rate for all of these attempts to rejoin the productive sector of society? Zero.

Until today.

Today I was absolutely baffled to receive a response for a job I applied to on Tuesday. You mean putting my work experience and full contact information into an online form sometimes actually causes something else to happen?? WHAAA?

In any case, I the email I received was as follows:

Hello,

This email is to notify you that your resume has been received and is under review. If the manager has an interest in scheduling an interview you will be contacted from someone on the team within the next several weeks. In the event you are not contacted for this position please don't get discouraged as we will hold on to your information for future requirements.

Sincerely,

If you're wondering, I did not redact the name - the email was exactly that sincere. We shall see, we shall see. Obviously I'm hoping they do follow up, but given the past response rate, I refuse to get all worked up.
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Ah, January

After the December lull in job listings, the January deluge has finally arrived. For weeks, there were only a few new listings each day on my favorite websites, but at long last we're back up to dozens. Granted, most of them are crap, but it's still encouraging to see so many vacancies, especially when Brian Williams tells us every night that those with jobs had better hold on for dear life, and the rest of us are just screwed. I even had an interview today! It went well, which was encouraging, but even more encouraging was the fact that it had happened at all. I'm not going to lie - it was nice to feel (and truly believe) that I was marketable once again.

But I'm not one to count chickens. While I wait for word from them, I'm back to the job boards. My favorite incomprehensible listing for the day is this:
Director of Partner(relation)ships [Advertising Sales]

I wish I knew what that meant. Or maybe not - the Mystery of the Over-abundant Punctuation is delicious. I've certainly never had a job title that included both parentheses and brackets, nor have I ever had a title that included an optional infix (the bastard half-brother of the suffix and prefix). Nonetheless, if you can explain what that title means, please, do share.
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