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RE: Applying On-Line

Subject: RE: Applying On-Line
From: David Wood <davidwood -at- canada -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:13:31 -0500


| It's pretty funny/ironic that a writer who has (I'm guessing
| here, but I
| feel pretty safe) sold more copies of technical books than the rest of
| this list put together would not make it past the initial
| resume screening
| process maintained by many members of this list.
|
| Like Laura said, your loss.

I'm not dumb. If Laura Lemay ever decides to submit her resume to us, I
will certainly interview her. But that's because she's Laura Lemay. Not
all candidates have that advantage when submitting a resume.

I think the point was that with this strategy, you could discount or penalize a candidate *equally*as*competent* as Laura Lemay without ever knowing it, simply because she or he didn't use styles. The focus should be on the resume's content & grammar, the candidate's accomplishments, and compatibility with your organization. The candidate may have unknown and valid reasons for not using styles (like the person who wrote in HTML/CSS and imported to Word), but there is no excuse for bad grammar or poor content.

(That said, I'm a realist and am going to check my resume to make sure it uses styles only; :-) but I don't necessarily agree with this as an important criterion.)


David Wood
Freelance Technical Writer
DavidWood -at- canada -dot- com


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Re: Applying On-Line: From: Michael Oboryshko
RE: Applying On-Line: From: David Knopf

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