Re: Applying On-Line

[Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com>]

Long ago and far away (on another list that allowed job postings) a 
person posted a job, gave specific directions as to how he wanted the 
resume. Have no clue how many responses he had, but I can guess the one 
I know about did not get the job.

For starters, instead of submitting it to him personally, it was 
submitted to the list. And instead of being in Word, it was .rft. Now, 
granted, the person may have created it in another word processor had 
had to submit it in rtf, but the accompanying e-mail did not give any 
indication of this. Right off, this tells me this person is inattentive 
to details and doesn't follow directions very well.

Being the nosy sort, I opened the thing. When I talk to "newbies" I 
frequently show that resume (all personal/identifying information 
carefully deleted, of course) as an example of how to get your resume 
tossed in the trash (or get the delete button pressed). The submitter 
apparently didn't know to use the space bar to separate words, had not 
done a spell check, had these unreadable chunks of information.

A good, clean resume is important, and following directions is critical.

Jo Byrd


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