Posted on 06/05/2014 10:20:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hiring managers are less picky than they used to be, but misspellings and typos can still count against you. So can “creative” job titles.
It was bound to happen, now that millions of us are merrily texting and tweeting away. Job interviewers have become more tolerant of spelling mistakes and other errors on resumes than they used to be.
Consider: Only about 17% of hiring managers say they would toss a resume in the circular file if it had a single snafu in it, according to a new poll from staffing firm Accountemps. That’s a sharp drop from 40% who said they would five years ago, and 47% who said so in 2006. Some managers really don’t care whether you can spell or not. More than a quarter (27%) said they’d overlook three mistakes, up from just 7% five years ago.
Even so, it’s smart to proofread your CV carefully, or have a friend who’s a stickler for spelling take a look at it. Almost two-thirds (64%) of the hiring managers polled said they’d look askance at a candidate who let even a single mistake slip through.
“Attention to detail is required for most jobs, and a resume should showcase this skill, not detract from it,” notes Accountemps Chairman Max Messmer. He blames “the quick and casual nature of communication today” for the recent rise in resume blunders like these:
“My last employer fried me for no reason.”
“I am graduating this Maybe.”
“I am looking for my big brake.”
“Referees available upon request.”
“My talent will be very a parent when you see me work.”
“Objective: To accell in the accounting industry.”
“My 3 biggest hobbies are cars, golf, racquetball, and reading.”
“Work experience: Academic tudor.”
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I had a manager who would have been a good candidate for anything to do with “boner”. That was before sexual harassment was a thing. He didnt come after me because I wasn’t his type(too short at 5’2”) and had been hired by somebody else. I worked with one cocktail waitress who was 6 foot. Working with all these tall girls came in handier than getting the steps tool every time you needed to reach something.
1 page versus 2 page résumé? Thoughts?
SEX: often
I would be concerned about degrees from Evergreen in Olympia. I wouldn’t not consider them, I’d just be concerned.
Always one page
at the bottom put more pages upon request
a dentist once had me fill out an application and a question read “how do you brush your teeth?”
i answered, usually naked in front of the mirror.
never heard anything back though.
Thanks. Good idea.
You would probably not do well with a personality test.
I once had an interviewer ask how I was seeing or handling dead animals. It was a veterinary hospital, though.
I believe hell will be filled with HR. Most are less ethical than the management they support.
The truth is, half the HR putzes reading these resumes can’t spell either.
I believe your estimate is low. :)
What I've seen from HR is that they like to a foolish "stump the dummy questions" (ex: How do you fit a giraffe in a fridge?). They have no technical knowledge, so they can't ask anything about the job.
Yes, I would be concerned about Evergreen too. There was a time when I threw resumes from Colorado directly in the trash when Ward Churchill worked there. Rutgers is very close to having me do that. For the record, I am executive at a prestigious consulting firm. A school’s actions matter.
Back in 2001, a company I was with was going through major turmoil. They were international, their US division was run from Paris and their second line managers in the US were all French.
Nothing was getting done. They brought in a company to do team building with the managers and had us all take the Meyers Brigg test. After the test, we were taken to the Raritan River where we were taught how to row crew. Later that night we spent time at Princeton University where we were broken into teams and did a scavenger hunt.
During the seminar, we were presented with the 16 types of personalities and what each meant as well as how each personality conflicted or complimented each other.
Finally we were taken into a parking lot which was gridded out. As they called the personality type, you went to that box and stood there. After every box was called we were told to look around and see where our conflicts were or where we worked well together.
I learned why the people I couldn’t stand were like that. When we returned to the office after the weekend, and started to get back to our daily tasks, people started working better together.
The other testI took was Strengthfinders. Only reason I took it was to put it on my resume when I applied for a position at Rackspace. They are big on that and everyone has their Strengthfinders profiles in their work area.
“What I’ve seen from HR is that they like to a foolish “stump the dummy questions” (ex: How do you fit a giraffe in a fridge?). They have no technical knowledge, so they can’t ask anything about the job. “
I got a question like that. “Assuming you have a backyard, how would you get a giraffe out of it?”. I responded, “is it dead or alive?”
I wasn’t invited back for a second interview.
HR is the most useless and pointless department in any business. Outsource payroll and benefits to a specialist and let managers deal with their own hiring and firing.
Were those on actual resumes? Or did they steal them off of the Fox News scrawl?
IMO, HR is where large companies bury their Affirmative Action hires.
But then who would organize the Gay Days lunches and the Diversity celebrations? And Black History Appreciation? And Green Awareness picnics? And all that other PC crap that nobody cares about?
Probably because HR doesn’t read resumes. They run them through a software looking for particular buzzwords and decide who to follow up with based on that. Alas, misspell the buzzword and you’re toast. At least where that particular job is concerned.
Last year, I had a class that was nothing but problems. They didn't understand the assignments, turned assignments in late, turned in junk, questioned my teaching, questioned my grading and were rude and demanding. I finally looked up their records. ALL of them were in the HR program.
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