Listing "Attention to Detail" as a skill doesn't carry much weight when you misspell experience three times in the previous section.
Oh...and while it's great to have experience in "Arial Control Surveys" that's not going to help because all our control in in Times New Roman
There's a website I've seen that has hilarious resumes posted (without personal info) for a good laugh. I bet they are all real sadly...
James Fleming, post: 451513, member: 136 wrote: Listing "Attention to Detail" as a skill doesn't carry much weight when you misspell experience three times in the previous section.
Oh...and while it's great to have experience in "Arial Control Surveys" that's not going to help because all our control is in Times New Roman
paden cash, post: 451517, member: 20 wrote: There's a website I've seen that has hilarious resumes posted (without personal info) for a good laugh. I bet they are all real; sadly...
[SARCASM]You guys could at least TRY to post with proper spelling and punctuation; when your showing an aversion to an 80 percenter.[/SARCASM]
:smarty:
Only a dummy does control in New times Roman. The thing now is comic sans.
RADAR, post: 451551, member: 413 wrote: [SARCASM]You guys could at least TRY to post with proper spelling and punctuation; when your showing an aversion to an 80 percenter.[/SARCASM]
:smarty:
Did you mean "you're" ?
Tom Adams, post: 451562, member: 7285 wrote: Did you mean "you're" ?
Ha!
You tell him Tom!
That poster, RADAR; sure is a swell guy.
James Fleming, post: 451513, member: 136 wrote: Listing "Attention to Detail" as a skill doesn't carry much weight when you misspell experience three times in the previous section.
Nor should you list, "Great interpersonal communication skills" when a check with your last employer would reveal that you were terminated for insubordination.
Gene Kooper, post: 451582, member: 9850 wrote: insubordination
I've seen one where the candidate said, if successful, they would be expecting "challenging testes".
Once had someone submit a resume that said they were adept at leadership and "followership". Same batch of resumes had one that actually said "I am excited to obtain a position with insert company name . Oh eastern Idaho you are a special place.
Called a reference and his first words were "you mean he is out of jail? That's scary."
Good for you for calling references. From what the "news" has said here this morning, no background check was done on the guy who went on a shooting rampage yesterday (in MD and DE). I'm guessing references were not called either.
When I interviewed for my present job, I was not asked for references. In this case, things have worked out all right so far 😉
Edward Reading, post: 451601, member: 132 wrote: Once had someone submit a resume that said they were adept at leadership and "followership". Same batch of resumes had one that actually said "I am excited to obtain a position with insert company name . Oh eastern Idaho you are a special place.
He I bet I know who his former employer was... 
At least one got through. My coworker's drawing has an Arial layer.
Steve
I'm not picky, as long as the control is serifed we let it slide.
I once received one from someone that wanted to work at a profectional, motovated company.
To be fair though, in my final year at engineering school we had a "social studies" type paper and the last throw of the dice was to write an essay on something from a list of social issues. I can't remember what I chose but I do remember some buff piping up asking if we could use typewriters, then another asked if we could use computer word processors. Yes was the answer to both those. I had never used the latter, but we had an Apple IIc at home and I knew it had a word processor on it, so I set to work and ground out my 5000 words, printed it and handed it in. I got a good score and passed but the marker's comment left me rather embarrassed: "I have tried a number of times to work out what you are trying to say in your last paragraph, but it makes no sense and does not fit in with anything else you have written so I have ignored it". Turns out I didn't check the printout and the last paragraph was a random collection of about 20 lines of sentences and words that I'd cut out of the essay while writing it, intending maybe to reinsert or reuse them in other parts, and I had overlooked deleting it. Good on her for trying though.
Ha! I used to do the same thing prior to WYSIWYG. Thankfully I do not recall sending the document off with that remnant of random thoughts that didn't get incorporated in to my work. Steve
Actually, I was trying to think what the software was called, and something WYISWYG'ish rings a bell. And if I'd looked, I certainly would have seen what I would be getting.
I think WordStar was the first word processor I was introduced to in about 1985. That's when my appreciation of computers began.
My father commented once to me a number of years ago that the word processing program he used many years ago was his favorite. It had some options that he liked which became unavailable in the newer word processors.
