PSA: Resumes

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: lightpants

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is one thing I've always hated about companies. I'm a computer guy, not a fVcking english major. If you are going to judge my technical knowledge and abilities based on the fact that I may have spelled one word incorrectly out of 23498572034987502348 then you're a jackass...ESPECIALLY IF YOU TOSS THE DAMN THING WITHOUT EVEN READING THE REST OF IT!!! Oh, but feel free to hire some tool with a fancy resume that he probably paid $300 for, yet doesn't know the difference between a hard drive and a garden hose.

</rant>

What is this "hard drive" you speak of?

Dirk Johnson
IT Director

That's the thing that your internet cable gets plugged into, geez, noob.

😛

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is one thing I've always hated about companies. I'm a computer guy, not a fVcking english major. If you are going to judge my technical knowledge and abilities based on the fact that I may have spelled one word incorrectly out of 23498572034987502348 then you're a jackass...ESPECIALLY IF YOU TOSS THE DAMN THING WITHOUT EVEN READING THE REST OF IT!!! Oh, but feel free to hire some tool with a fancy resume that he probably paid $300 for, yet doesn't know the difference between a hard drive and a garden hose.

</rant>

So is it 192.168.108.198 or 192.168.106.198? Because as a computer major I'm sure you can see where a simple error on an important setting (resume) is important.

Even computer majors should appreciate this. It's a resume, not chat/web postings, IE important. Are you going to handle other important stuff with the same regard for accuracy?

 

[DurocShark]

Repost


heehee

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is one thing I've always hated about companies. I'm a computer guy, not a fVcking english major. If you are going to judge my technical knowledge and abilities based on the fact that I may have spelled one word incorrectly out of 23498572034987502348 then you're a jackass...ESPECIALLY IF YOU TOSS THE DAMN THING WITHOUT EVEN READING THE REST OF IT!!! Oh, but feel free to hire some tool with a fancy resume that he probably paid $300 for, yet doesn't know the difference between a hard drive and a garden hose.

</rant>

...Are you going to handle other important stuff with the same regard for accuracy?

NO! That's my point! 😀

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is one thing I've always hated about companies. I'm a computer guy, not a fVcking english major. If you are going to judge my technical knowledge and abilities based on the fact that I may have spelled one word incorrectly out of 23498572034987502348 then you're a jackass...ESPECIALLY IF YOU TOSS THE DAMN THING WITHOUT EVEN READING THE REST OF IT!!! Oh, but feel free to hire some tool with a fancy resume that he probably paid $300 for, yet doesn't know the difference between a hard drive and a garden hose.

</rant>

...Are you going to handle other important stuff with the same regard for accuracy?

NO! That's my point! 😀

File13>>>>>your resume. 😉

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is one thing I've always hated about companies. I'm a computer guy, not a fVcking english major. If you are going to judge my technical knowledge and abilities based on the fact that I may have spelled one word incorrectly out of 23498572034987502348 then you're a jackass...ESPECIALLY IF YOU TOSS THE DAMN THING WITHOUT EVEN READING THE REST OF IT!!! Oh, but feel free to hire some tool with a fancy resume that he probably paid $300 for, yet doesn't know the difference between a hard drive and a garden hose.

</rant>

I'm not an English major either, but I know how, and I hope you would as a computer guy know how, to use a spellchecker. jackass.

 

Good thing I work for myself. Otherwise I would have to worry about pointless crap like this.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: HN
Who needs spell check when the human mind can take care of it for you:

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer
be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and
you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

you sir are wrong

Follow-up: Can You Raed Tihs? meal worms writes "A Slashdot article appearing last Monday, which reported on the claim that scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place, was circulated to the University of British Columbia's Linguistics department. An interesting counter-example resulted:

"Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr."

As demonstrated, a simple inversion of the internal characters results in a text which is relatively hard to decipher."

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2350239&tid=167

 

[TwinkleToes77]

It's not even the spelling that gets me. We have hundreds of resumes coming into our business atm and this one person sent his resume in SEVEN times. What was really interesting about it though was, twice it came with a differently spelled first name (same address and exact same resume).

 

[PTCvette]

The last time our company was hiring, my boss had me sift through some resumes, and honest to God, one of the people that had sent us a resume had left 1/2 of a section description from a generic word template in their objective. It was something like:

Objective - To get a job in the software industry doing technical support. This section is where you state the objective of your resume. In this part you should put what you hope to accomplish.... etc....

Needless to say that resume went in the trash so fast it wasn't even funny.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: HN
Who needs spell check when the human mind can take care of it for you:

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer
be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and
you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

you sir are wrong

Follow-up: Can You Raed Tihs? meal worms writes "A Slashdot article appearing last Monday, which reported on the claim that scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place, was circulated to the University of British Columbia's Linguistics department. An interesting counter-example resulted:

"Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr."

As demonstrated, a simple inversion of the internal characters results in a text which is relatively hard to decipher."

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2350239&tid=167

That's nice and all, but it doesn't explain how we can read the first post. It just shows that some ways of splitting the characters are harder to read than others.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
It's not even the spelling that gets me. We have hundreds of resumes coming into our business atm and this one person sent his resume in SEVEN times. What was really interesting about it though was, twice it came with a differently spelled first name (same address and exact same resume).

That moron thinks he's fooling your computer system by creating several "accounts" in your system (one for each misspelling). They probably think it's giving them more "looks" and they can correct the misspelling once hired.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
That's nice and all, but it doesn't explain how we can read the first post. It just shows that some ways of splitting the characters are harder to read than others.

it does, it just disproves it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
That's nice and all, but it doesn't explain how we can read the first post. It just shows that some ways of splitting the characters are harder to read than others.

it does, it just disproves it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,

But it doesn't show that all orders are unreadable. I read that last statement with no problem, but I couldn't read your first. They have only proven that specific scrablming is unreadable.

edit: moo!

 

[Danman]

Hey CPA, I just re-did my resume and I was wondering if you can take a look at it.....thanks man. YGPM. 🙂

 

[sygyzy]

CPA - Please post the resume ... and pictures of your wife.

 

[AmigaMan]

Sometimes simple mistakes do get through. On one of my resume rewrites I left out a word. It was supposed to say something like "led to savings of $400,000 per year" yet I forgot the words "savings of". Passed spellcheck but it was totally my fault I didn't proofread it before I sent it to a company. I was re-reading it a couple days later and found the mistake. Still got the interview though...

 

[TwinkleToes77]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
It's not even the spelling that gets me. We have hundreds of resumes coming into our business atm and this one person sent his resume in SEVEN times. What was really interesting about it though was, twice it came with a differently spelled first name (same address and exact same resume).

That moron thinks he's fooling your computer system by creating several "accounts" in your system (one for each misspelling). They probably think it's giving them more "looks" and they can correct the misspelling once hired.

Unfortunately.. these are faxes. Not emails. So I'm pulling off the fax machine one by one as they come in.

 

[BooGiMaN]

how many times do i have to tell you..yes it is spelled 'leet skillz'

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
CPA - Please post the resume ... and pictures of your wife.

Such subtlety deserves recognition and reward.

 

[shopbruin]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is one thing I've always hated about companies. I'm a computer guy, not a fVcking english major. If you are going to judge my technical knowledge and abilities based on the fact that I may have spelled one word incorrectly out of 23498572034987502348 then you're a jackass...ESPECIALLY IF YOU TOSS THE DAMN THING WITHOUT EVEN READING THE REST OF IT!!! Oh, but feel free to hire some tool with a fancy resume that he probably paid $300 for, yet doesn't know the difference between a hard drive and a garden hose.

</rant>

resumes are the first impression you make with a company. if they want people who pay attention to detail, they're not going to pick someone who makes typos on their resumes. proofread!

 

[sygyzy]

I completely agree with freesia39. I can't believe how many people think that ignorance is accepted or valued. This guy I interviewed is not going to get the job because of his poor interviewing skills. I think he is technically sound but he just came off really nervous and jittery. That cost him the job.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
That's nice and all, but it doesn't explain how we can read the first post. It just shows that some ways of splitting the characters are harder to read than others.

it does, it just disproves it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,

But it doesn't show that all orders are unreadable. I read that last statement with no problem, but I couldn't read your first. They have only proven that specific scrablming is unreadable.

edit: moo!

From the first BS post:

"According to a researcher at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place."

The /. message PwN3d this moron by disproving the bolded part. And while we're throwing out random statements, "QED, bitch!" 😉

- M4H

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
This is one thing I've always hated about companies. I'm a computer guy, not a fVcking english major. If you are going to judge my technical knowledge and abilities based on the fact that I may have spelled one word incorrectly out of 23498572034987502348 then you're a jackass...ESPECIALLY IF YOU TOSS THE DAMN THING WITHOUT EVEN READING THE REST OF IT!!! Oh, but feel free to hire some tool with a fancy resume that he probably paid $300 for, yet doesn't know the difference between a hard drive and a garden hose.

</rant>

I'm not an English major either, but I know how, and I hope you would as a computer guy know how, to use a spellchecker. jackass.

Yes, because MS spellchecker is fool proof :roll:

Oh, and your "jackass" should have a capital "J", because it is the start of a new sentence. I guess your spellcheck missed that one eh? 😉

I suppose you have to throw out that last post now... 😀

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
That's nice and all, but it doesn't explain how we can read the first post. It just shows that some ways of splitting the characters are harder to read than others.

it does, it just disproves it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,

But it doesn't show that all orders are unreadable. I read that last statement with no problem, but I couldn't read your first. They have only proven that specific scrablming is unreadable.

edit: moo!

From the first BS post:

"According to a researcher at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place."

The /. message PwN3d this moron by disproving the bolded part. And while we're throwing out random statements, "QED, bitch!" 😉

- M4H

Quo ad hoc. 😛

It still doesn't explain how you can read some combinations with just the first and last letters the same.

That's Latin, darlin'! It appears Mr. M4H is an educated man. Now I really hate him! 😉

edit: TwinkleToes77,
😕

Dropped as a baby then?