[djmcmath]

Wow, this generation is worse than I had thought. My dad (college professor) sometimes tells horror stories about whole papers written in text message short-hand, or ripped out of a bound notebook and hand-scrawled. Guys who work for me periodically do some writing, and it's pretty abysmal. I never would have guessed that basic resume-writing skills had gone this far down the toilet, though.

My first draft resume was mediocre. Oddly enough, I got a great job off that mediocre resume, but that's not the point. The point was that even my first draft was short, well-organized, and contained solid statements of what work I had done with what impact. I wrote it in Navy-speak rather than Corporate America speak, and I left out some key qualifications, but it was good enough. Had I made a spelling or grammatical error, I would have been mortified, and would promptly have assumed that anyone who had seen the erroneous resume would not hire me.


So do you hire the best of the bad options, thus allowing them to breed and pass on their idiocy to future generations? Do you write to their schools and complain that the school is graduating illiterate students? Do you hire someone in hopes of being able to train them in basic English? Do you open up your own training department, complete with English professors, in hopes of teaching these poor lost souls to do the basic elements of their jobs?