Amazing........ the resumes people send

NotaSuv
NotaSuv Posts: 3,860
edited August 2008 in The Clubhouse
We are hiring a new Marketing Director and a office assistant, I am the lucky one who gets to hire them and read lots of resumes...I mean lots...I am amazed at the garbage people send in thinking it will get them a job, no spell check and no format :( The days of well written resumes is long gone my friends..cant tell ya how many pink ones I have gotten...though it has resulted in me laughing aloud enough to draw attetion from other people in the office....okay back to the stack :D
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited August 2008
    We had a hand written resume last week. TRASH.
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited August 2008
    I spell checked and had five other people look at my rezoomee, it's beautiful and should get me a job. I suppose I ought to send it out to someone... ;)
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited August 2008
    petrym wrote: »
    I spell checked and had five other people look at my rezoomee, it's beautiful and should get me a job. I suppose I ought to send it out to someone... ;)

    Good call. It doesn't do a lot of good sitting in your desk. :p
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited August 2008
    getting to be that effetive interview skills are becoming a lost art as well.
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  • 66chevyIISS
    66chevyIISS Posts: 857
    edited August 2008
    ohskigod wrote: »
    getting to be that effetive interview skills are becoming a lost art as well.

    funny :D
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited August 2008
    ohskigod wrote: »
    getting to be that effetive interview skills are becoming a lost art as well.

    Yeah, walking in to some dudes office, grabbing him by the shirt and yelling in his face "Hire me or I'll use your head for a hackysack!" doesn't quite land you your dream job.
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  • John in MA
    John in MA Posts: 1,010
    edited August 2008
    Jstas wrote: »
    Yeah, walking in to some dudes office, grabbing him by the shirt and yelling in his face "Hire me or I'll use your head for a hackysack!" doesn't quite land you your dream job.

    Hey, I landed a good mob enforcer job that way. They liked my working attitude.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,860
    edited August 2008
    petrym wrote: »
    I spell checked and had five other people look at my rezoomee, it's beautiful and should get me a job. I suppose I ought to send it out to someone... ;)

    john@sushiavenue.com :D
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited August 2008
    NotaSuv wrote: »
    john@sushiavenue.com :D
    You're joking... right? :confused:
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,341
    edited August 2008
    I was hosting a booth for my employer at a career fair at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU is a top notch school with an excellent school of engineering. Most of the students were very professional in their demeanor and dress. The career fair was held in one of their gymnasiums. There were racket ball courts, fitness center, swimming pool etc. Out of the blue a guy walks up to me wearing a bathrobe, a pair of flip flops, eating a calzone and asks me "Do you have any jobs for computer engineers?" as he's chewing away.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited August 2008
    schwarcw wrote: »
    I was hosting a booth for my employer at a career fair at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU is a top notch school with an excellent school of engineering. Most of the students were very professional in their demeanor and dress. The career fair was held in one of their gymnasiums. There were racket ball courts, fitness center, swimming pool etc. Out of the blue a guy walks up to me wearing a bathrobe, a pair of flip flops, eating a calzone and asks me "Do you have any jobs for computer engineers?" as he's chewing away.

    Well did you? :p
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,605
    edited August 2008
    Bathrobe? Must be top of his class. All tech and NO social skills.

    You would think potential marketing directors would be able to at least look
    the part on paper. Some jobs, the paper is worthless, the proof is in the
    interview. Tech jobs are always fun. HR guys have no idea what a good
    match is for the jobs posted. A couple of good catch phrases, and
    they think they've struck gold.
    I had an internal job change years ago where I'd already interviewed and been
    promised the job. I put the paperwork in to HR, and they told me I wasn't qualified!
    The department manager finally went down and yanked the resume away from them.
    I've had the same problem on the hiring side. 90% of what they think is good isn't.
    We went down and sorted through them ourselves. They were a bit put off, but they got over it.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,207
    edited August 2008
    What I am finding nowadays is that companies expect you to apply on line,do a 45 minute questionaire,then maybe get back to you in 4-6 weeks. Then, when they do you get a 10 minute phone interview. I have been told that I am "dry" on a phone interview but I can run circles around anybody in a face to face. Things are getting too impersonal and people are being judged by a resume or an impersonal interview that is canned questions and probably done by someone who really doesn't want to be a part of the process.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited August 2008
    I agree that the whole online questionnaire crap needs to go away. What I really don't like is uploading my resume, then sitting there and typing up my job history like people do for some **** mall job when you're 15 or 16.........

    I'd be willing to do that after I've interviewed and as part of the formality of being offered the job, but not for every potential to 'get back to me in 'x# of weeks'
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • Shannon W.
    Shannon W. Posts: 568
    edited August 2008
    schwarcw wrote: »
    I was hosting a booth for my employer at a career fair at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU is a top notch school with an excellent school of engineering. Most of the students were very professional in their demeanor and dress. The career fair was held in one of their gymnasiums. There were racket ball courts, fitness center, swimming pool etc. Out of the blue a guy walks up to me wearing a bathrobe, a pair of flip flops, eating a calzone and asks me "Do you have any jobs for computer engineers?" as he's chewing away.


    Thats funny, But the thing that gets me is that you should get hired on your brain or qualifications not how you dress when you pick up a application. LoL
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited August 2008
    There's dressed down, and there's unquestionably inappropriate............that's not even borderline on what a moron you are to walk up to someone with a mouthful, and not even dressed to be out in public.......
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited August 2008
    we got a resume' recently with a black and white 8x10 glossy headshot... nice looking lady..

    the things people do for a custodian job these days. :p
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  • Shannon W.
    Shannon W. Posts: 568
    edited August 2008
    daboyz wrote: »
    do a 45 minute questionnaire,.
    Ya, And the questionnaire don't have one damn thing to do with the job your applying for. Just a bunch of ridiculous questions. And we sit around the camp fire and wonder why unemployment is so high and people are (I'll quote Pantara) "FRIGGING HOSTILE" at their jobs! For one they (employees get treated like a number every day they show up for work & for two they get told day in and day out "that if you don't like it here, leave because we have 1500 other people that will come in here and do your job for less money". For three every time you turn around American industry leaves the states for Mexico or somewhere in Europe. Four if you even say the word UNION the next week to company starts sending out anti-union propaganda and threatening the building that they will shut down and move someplace to bust up the union.
    Sorry for the rant guys! I'm kinda down on Big Business right now with I and my wife both loosing or jobs for one of the Country's largest Pharmacy Co. after 9yrs of service.
    Anyone here looking for a bean counter? LoL
    I didn't mean to Hijack your thread NotaSuv.

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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited August 2008
    schwarcw wrote: »
    I was hosting a booth for my employer at a career fair at Carnegie Mellon University. CMU is a top notch school with an excellent school of engineering. Most of the students were very professional in their demeanor and dress. The career fair was held in one of their gymnasiums. There were racket ball courts, fitness center, swimming pool etc. Out of the blue a guy walks up to me wearing a bathrobe, a pair of flip flops, eating a calzone and asks me "Do you have any jobs for computer engineers?" as he's chewing away.

    ha ha ha.. funny thing is.. next time you see him. he'll be on the cover of Fortune magazine. ;)
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  • Shannon W.
    Shannon W. Posts: 568
    edited August 2008
    brettw22 wrote: »
    There's dressed down, and there's unquestionably inappropriate............that's not even borderline on what a moron you are to walk up to someone with a mouthful, and not even dressed to be out in public.......

    Thats a Computer Engineer for you. LoL

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  • Shannon W.
    Shannon W. Posts: 568
    edited August 2008
    danger boy wrote: »
    ha ha ha.. funny thing is.. next time you see him. he'll be on the cover of Fortune magazine. ;)

    Aint that the truth!

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2008
    Shannon W. wrote: »
    Thats a Computer Engineer for you. LoL

    Shannon

    Hey, I resemble that remark!
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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