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ITT: Resume dos and don'ts
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:12 AM
-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.
Other thoughts? |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:14 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:15 AM 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 |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:15 AM
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 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
LOL, you could go to JAIL if you round up. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:19 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:21 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:18 AM
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 |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:24 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:29 AM
enjoy your "tech company" |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:16 AM 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
"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 |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:21 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:24 PM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 4:22 PM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 10:35 AM
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 |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:12 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:15 AM
ywia you broke mothafucka |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:17 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:38 AM OOo is not sketchy. It was made by IBM, Sun, and Oracle. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:21 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:37 AM "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 |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:10 PM My comment remains: lol windows |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:13 PM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:16 PM Right click works just fine on my mac tyvm |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:05 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:11 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:25 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:27 AM
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 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
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 |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:15 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:22 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:24 AM
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 |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:32 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:42 AM u mad my company uses macs and we're in the IT industry |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:29 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:33 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:34 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:38 AM
along with adobe acrobat |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:10 PM (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 11:27 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:29 AM This could potentially create a problem. |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 12:16 PM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 11:58 AM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:16 PM TWIST: Your law school doesn't actually give a fuck! |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 4:21 PM |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 12:10 PM
90% of people omitted GPA on their resumes, though. |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:01 PM
Linkedin can automatically export your profile into a pdf resume format. Use that |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:08 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
comes out looking professionally typeset |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:18 PM |
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Date: May 11th, 2012 12:41 PM
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 |
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