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ITT: Resume dos and don'ts
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:12 AM Author: Aggressive gay athletic conference legend Reviewing some resumes for an open position now. Looking at resumes from the other side has made some things clear:
-Amazing that there are still some college grads who have resumes that are more than one page. These go automatically in the trash.
-Less is more. These resumes packed with every fraternity/sorority committee you served on, with details about each, is not only unnecessary; it makes you look silly.
-LOL at people who have GPAs with three numbers after the decimal. No one is impressed by your 3.744.
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:14 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm I've been absolutely shocked by the number of 2+ page resumes I've seen. That was like rule #1 when I was told how to write a resume. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668575) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:15 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, I've heard of career services types telling people it's not a rule anymore! |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:17 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm That must be the case. Brilliant advice when the people who will review your resume were told that no one would read beyond the first page. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668594) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:15 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university your points 1 and 3 are lol
if you have publications, you have more than one page.
if your school measures GPAs to three decimals, you are required to present them as such
is this why you appear to work in HR? |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:16 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, If you have publications, you're probably doing a CV, not a resume, and you likely aren't applyign for law jerbs |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:17 AM Author: irradiated karate native "if your school measures GPAs to three decimals, you are required to present them as such"
LOL, you could go to JAIL if you round up. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:19 AM Author: deranged institution reading party lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668618) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:21 AM Author: Brilliant startled becky base lol, the IRIN CHAINS OF NOROUNDING (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669011) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:18 AM Author: Aggressive gay athletic conference legend These aren't CVs for academic jobs (or even research jobs), bro. These are resumes for a tech job (at a company you've heard of).
lol at "you are required" to present them as such. This is most definitely not true. I'm pretty sure my UG (like any UG) gave me a GPA to three decimals on my transcript, but no one with any sense puts that on a resume - looks tacky and amateurish. One decimal is credited.
Don't work in HR; this is my first exposure to this (filtering some resumes for a higher-up for a selective position requiring certain specific skills). |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:20 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university how's radio shack bro? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668624) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:24 AM Author: Aggressive gay athletic conference legend lol, u mad no one cares about your 2-page resume listing your preftigious 3.648 GPA and your EXTENSIVE community service and fraternity leadership roles? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668662) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:29 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university way too high for my GPA, i wasnt a frat bro, and community service is for poors
enjoy your "tech company" |
Date: May 11th, 2012 10:16 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, give specific numbers if you've accomplished something, not shitty vague "researched and accomplished thing on asshattery" but rather "drafted memo on XYZ explaining why action A would savfe company B $10M" |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:20 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm titc opening line for your cover letter:
"I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career." |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:26 AM Author: soggy cruise ship lol nice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668675) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:59 AM Author: Nofapping arousing stag film 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668885) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:21 AM Author: crimson hairraiser kitchen dingle berry Translation: I'm a Boomer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669012) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:23 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed (guy who has never seen taken) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669025) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:18 PM Author: elite range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669384) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:31 AM Author: Painfully honest khaki international law enforcement agency hall *TMF bookmarking thread* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668708) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:33 AM Author: Aggressive gay athletic conference legend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668721) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:21 AM Author: crimson hairraiser kitchen dingle berry No way. Besides, my resume gets interviews, I just suck at translating those into offers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669016) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:52 AM Author: Painfully honest khaki international law enforcement agency hall How many failed BIGLAW interviews have you had since losing your BIGLAW job? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669234) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:24 PM Author: Ebony duck-like temple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669409) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 4:22 PM Author: crimson hairraiser kitchen dingle berry ugh, too many. In any event, that isn't a problem with my resume but rather with me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20670841) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:35 AM Author: Chestnut Aromatic Jewess Lodge Gradually more people are developing online resume/portfolio sites.
I know this is typically viewed as a creative practice, but having a personal web page of your bio, a photo, your resume, and other accomplishments/articles you've (co)authored etc. could be useful for networking. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:39 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm I think LinkedIn covers this for non-creative types, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668759) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:46 AM Author: Chestnut Aromatic Jewess Lodge Yeah, you're right. I haven't had my coffee -- really, what I'm trying to get it as that having a personal website shows a certain kind of sophistication and you have more control over it, thus being able to brand yourself a little better. Perhaps I'm just in marketing so I am thinking like a marketing person. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668799) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:40 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed (linkedin CEO) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668768) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:46 AM Author: Chestnut Aromatic Jewess Lodge Whattaguy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668803) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:56 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed I usually save mine in word 2003 format. A lot of compaies haven't upgraded to 2007 yet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668868) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:57 AM Author: dashing jap hell sending your resume in Word format = autoding. pdf, breh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668875) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:59 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668881) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:02 AM Author: Chestnut Aromatic Jewess Lodge Why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668898) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:05 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed for starters it is a pain in the ass to convert word to pdf if you have office 2003. sending a pdf is fine but word format is not an autoding at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668913) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:06 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university red and green squigglies everywhere FTW! welcome to the company! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668920) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:07 AM Author: Chestnut Aromatic Jewess Lodge Subject: Protect your document https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=word+to+pdf+converter#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=word+2003+to+pdf+converter&oq=word+2003+to+pdf+converter&aq=f&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_l=serp.3..0l4.6801.7623.0.7754.5.5.0.0.0.0.164.643.0j5.5.0...0.0.-QE_xwOBnn8&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=356e729b7a15c7f0&biw=999&bih=811 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668928) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:12 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed I've used those before. It's just an extra step that's completely unnecessary. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668962) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:15 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm http://www.openoffice.org/download/
ywia you broke mothafucka |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:17 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed I have 2007 and i wouldn't download some sketchy program anyways. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668991) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:38 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, OOo is not sketchy. It was made by IBM, Sun, and Oracle. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:21 AM Author: massive center puppy There are free plugins that allow you to one-click convert to PDF right from the word toolbar, dude. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669009) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:37 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, "it is a pain in the ass to convert word to pdf" lol windows |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:09 PM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed on 2003 it kind of is. 2007 and after it is easy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669331) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:10 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, My comment remains: lol windows |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:13 PM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed *right clicks all over your face* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669353) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:16 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, Right click works just fine on my mac tyvm |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:05 AM Author: dashing jap hell this is well known (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668912) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:06 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed no it's not. the vast majority of people send word resumes and no one thinks anything of it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668918) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:07 AM Author: dashing jap hell vast majority of people are dumbs, what's your point? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668927) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:08 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed sending in word format is not an autoding. if anything, converting it to pdf makes you look like a tool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668933) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:08 AM Author: dashing jap hell yfwgi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668939) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:09 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university lololololol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668942) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:11 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed you people are weird. I had to go through like 70 resumes for our intern hiring and almost all of them were in word. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668952) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:25 AM Author: massive center puppy People applying to work for free arent concerned with resume formatting issues, why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669035) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:27 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed it's paid actually and they should be concerned because we got close to 300 applicants for one position.
it was for a qunat position too, so it's not like we were dealing with all polisci majors. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:42 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, As a clerk, we got 700 for 1 position. 100% in PDF. As GC of a company now, I help with recruiting. Probably 70% of our resumes (IT industry) are PDF. Word can actually fuck up your formatting from one version to another. The point of PDF was to know for a fact yours will look exactly the same on every computer. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:11 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm lol no dood.
from the perspective of the applicant, it's nice not having to worry about the formatting getting all fucked up on the recipient's computer. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:07 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm docs are of course not a dealbreaker, but pdfs create the better first impression. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668931) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:15 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed it makes literally no difference other than word 2003 users wondering how or why you made it into a pdf. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668978) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:22 AM Author: massive center puppy It doesn't make a difference as long as your formatting doesn't get fucked up. This is precisely the reason PDFs were created in the first place. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669023) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:24 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university cr
documents NEVER show up the same computer-to-computer in Word. especially if Macs and PCs are both involved. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:28 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed lol at businesses using macs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669058) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:29 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm what (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669063) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:30 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed companies don't use macs. maybe if you're applying to groupon or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669073) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:32 AM Author: adventurous garrison gay wizard a lot of tech companies use macs breh, particularly coders. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669087) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:42 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, u mad my company uses macs and we're in the IT industry |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:29 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university i'm becoming increasingly convinced that your "intern" position was at the local YMCA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669068) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:31 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed I'm very convinced that you are asian (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669080) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:33 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university make sure not to download any sketchy scary software on your ten year old Dell bro! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669091) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:34 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed I'm sure "openoffice" is a common term among your kind. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669097) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:38 AM Author: Insanely creepy brass therapy university yea it kinda is actually
along with adobe acrobat |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:43 AM Author: massive center puppy Are you being serious man? OpenOffice has been around for years, it's the biggest open source word processing program, as far as I know (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669167) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:49 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed Microsoft is cool with their shit being pirated? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669203) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:57 AM Author: massive center puppy Huh? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669269) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:10 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, (guy who apparently has no idea what the FUCK "open source" is despite having attended law school and presumably taken an IP law class) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:14 PM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed I'm not a lawyer thank god. no one normal knows or cares what open source is or would ever be in a situation where they needed to acquire a pirated version of office. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669364) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:43 AM Author: Beady-eyed navy sandwich business firm It is about as sketchy as Firefox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669170) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:45 AM Author: dashing jap hell pro-Word pumo probably uses IE, so... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669180) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:49 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed MAF Asians in this subthread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669208) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:27 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed the formats seemed fine in all the resumes I've ever reviewed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669043) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:29 AM Author: massive center puppy Fair enough, but "seemed fine" =/= "exactly as it appears on the sender's computer" This could potentially create a problem. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:02 AM Author: adventurous garrison gay wizard titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20668899) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:22 AM Author: Brilliant startled becky base this has to be a law thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669020) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:24 AM Author: Exciting cheese-eating half-breed seems like it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669029) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:27 AM Author: massive center puppy Perhaps. We are already used to needing our documents formatted in a very specific way, and we know that bouncing word docs between computers invariably fucks up the formatting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669048) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:53 AM Author: abusive internal respiration lol no. i did this in undergrad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669236) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:18 PM Author: Brilliant startled becky base lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669389) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:52 AM Author: abusive internal respiration cr on using pdf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669231) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:51 AM Author: abusive internal respiration lulz. i have office 2011. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669219) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:53 AM Author: milky idiot travel guidebook if your name googles to blog calling you a racist, stalker, etc try heading your resume with a shortened name or a nickname. Not only might this save you from embarrassment, but it'll help with any perceived rigidness, and it'll make a recruiter question less your aspieness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669235) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 12:16 PM Author: learning disabled passionate station weed whacker plz delete this tip tyia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20675833) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:58 AM Author: Ebony duck-like temple My law school mandated we use 3 decimals for our GPA if we decided to list it. According to your logic, a 3.695 could be listed as 3.70. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669276) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:16 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle market Greetings, TWIST: Your law school doesn't actually give a fuck! |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 4:21 PM Author: high-end alcoholic casino law school has no right to control your fucking resume. did they not teach you anything at that school? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20670833) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 12:10 PM Author: Ebony duck-like temple this was for OCI. they would screen our resumes before letting us use them. i believe it was to keep all students on an equal playing field.
90% of people omitted GPA on their resumes, though. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:01 PM Author: Henna Tanning Salon Digit Ratio def agree with the 1 page rule. Short and to the point. People need to put themselves in the shoes of some HR douche who reads through stacks of resumes
Linkedin can automatically export your profile into a pdf resume format. Use that |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:08 PM Author: Stimulating Theatre use this to make your resume:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
comes out looking professionally typeset |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:18 PM Author: Stirring whorehouse masturbator Don't list blackplanet.com as an interest. (Rowan) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20669383) |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:41 PM Author: bull headed titillating library kitty Shocking number of people don't tab or use tables, they try to align shit by hitting the space bar 50 times.
I ask for pdf resumes in job postings, and dipshits still send word docs. Ding, because we send a lot of files to clients and other firms we work with, and sending word docs is extremely clownish. If you don't have the time or the ability to convert your resume to pdf, you'd suck in this job anyway. |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 12:12 PM Author: Ebony duck-like temple tables are so credited. especially if you change font, font size, or margins. lol @ proles who have to re-space out everything after making a minor formatting change while i just coast using DEM BIGTABLESFORMATTING (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20675812) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 11:58 AM Author: Ungodly public bath if u have good grades it dont matter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1946019&forum_id=2#20675767) |