Resume Woes....

[TyFenn]

Do you mind taking a look at what we've got so far?

[rammstein]

Originally Posted by AFJuvat

12. Scented, pink parchment with a kitten watermark - just say no.

LOOK- I am just trying to stand out a little. Don't be such a stiff!

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by RickM

Education can be quite important but it's spot is not at the beginning of a Resume unless you're fresh out of school.

Improper use of apostrophes always chapped my as$.

[alf]

Originally Posted by AFJuvat

our corporate spam filter.

2. In a related note, I know what 420 means; you may want to leave that out of your email address.

What does 420 mean in an email address?

[Hard-Deck]

* 420 - marijuana related, from the police code used for possession
or use of marijuana

[LeeH]

I've been playing the same game this week. We were very clear in our ad... "In your cover letter you must discuss your experience with QuickBooks and Excel. You must include your salary history and salary expectations. If you do not include these things you will not be considered for the job." I bet 1 in 10 actually did what we said you HAD to do to be in the running for the position! Makes weeding through them a lot easier.

[JeremyD]

I do this for a living and the scope of errors is mind boggling. My favorite email address from last week; devilspawn2@XXXX.com

yeah - someone I want to hire.

[John_AZ]

The post is timely. Sort out the best qualified, best written and invite them to a staged holiday party with food, refreshments and attractive wait staff. The one who best manages this task should be hired.
Use a liberal interpretation for the above party.

John_AZ

[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?