So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck

Re:So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck by gruseom on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:12PM (#325033)

2. Include a misspelling.

7. Apply for a job for which you are clearly overqualified for

I guess what he means is "prove that you can turn a spell-checker on".

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Re:So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck by tjr on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:56PM (#325085)

I once applied for a job, and was rejected with a letter listing reasons why they typically reject applicants. This list included grammatical and spelling errors on one's letter or resume.

Ironically, the company's rejection letter itself contained both a grammatical and spelling error. Having already been rejected, I decided to write back to them and point this out. I guess they were in some way impressed, as they wrote back to me asking if I'd be interested in a job, but by this time I wasn't.

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Re:So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck by Hexstream on Monday October 06, 2008 @05:36PM (#325336)

You're lucky, when I take time to point out spelling errors I usually get ignored in a more or less hostile way.

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