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catscradle Apr. 7th, 2005 02:02 pm)
catscradle Apr. 7th, 2005 02:02 pm)Well, I just reviewed the ten résumés that my boss put on my desk for our new slave office assistant. Interesting to experience the hiring process from the other side. We received about 45 applications for this shitty position. We're only paying about $10.50 and hour for it, and we got a SLEW of applicants that were previously making making between $45-60K a year and are WAY over qualified. I put those at the bottom of the list as there's no way in hell they intend to stay here more than 5 seconds past the time they find a job that matches their skills and previous salaries. I feel bad, I mean I do realize that these are desparate people to be applying here, but we've run through 2 people in this position in less than a year.
I'm a bit amazed at how many people write uber sucky résumés. I was intent on thoroughly reading all of them, but I have to admit, I took points off for bad formatting and poor writing skills. I can see why employers pass up most of them, I was going crosseyed trying to read them. I actually pity my boss who had to read 45 of these, the majority of which were probably total crap judging from the top 10 that I got.
There were a couple that demostrated they were very familiar with the thesarus on their word processor. Word of advice - know what a word means and how it's used in a sentence before selecting what people will use to judge you. Then there were very unprofessional letters "urging" us to select them and not letting this wonderful opportunity pass us by! But maybe that's appropriate as they'll only be making $19.95 a year anyway.
I found two résumés that I was actually impressed with and thought they'd make a good fit in this office plus three more potentials. My boss picked three of my top five, which was cool. I get to help with the interviews next week. Woohoo!
I'm a bit amazed at how many people write uber sucky résumés. I was intent on thoroughly reading all of them, but I have to admit, I took points off for bad formatting and poor writing skills. I can see why employers pass up most of them, I was going crosseyed trying to read them. I actually pity my boss who had to read 45 of these, the majority of which were probably total crap judging from the top 10 that I got.
There were a couple that demostrated they were very familiar with the thesarus on their word processor. Word of advice - know what a word means and how it's used in a sentence before selecting what people will use to judge you. Then there were very unprofessional letters "urging" us to select them and not letting this wonderful opportunity pass us by! But maybe that's appropriate as they'll only be making $19.95 a year anyway.
I found two résumés that I was actually impressed with and thought they'd make a good fit in this office plus three more potentials. My boss picked three of my top five, which was cool. I get to help with the interviews next week. Woohoo!
