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Re: job screening question
From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:07:57 +0100
On 06/07/2012 23:25, valdis.kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
The Friday afternoon cynic in me says it's because it's a move with positive paybacks. There's 3 basic possibilities: 1) You send the puffed resume to a company with clue, it gets recognized as puffed, and you don't get the job. Zero loss, you weren't going to get that job anyhow. 2) You send a boring unpuffed resume to a company sans clue. They recognize it as boring because there's only 3 buzzwords on 2 pages, and you don't get the job. Loss. 3) You send a puffed resume, and the guy doing the hiring doesn't know what the 3-packet mating call of the Internet is *either*. Win.
or: 4) you get caught out in the interview as being puffed up, but the company hires you anyway despite strongly worded objections from the interviewer, causing the interviewer's eyes to spin in their sockets at the inanity of the decision. You then spend your entire employment at the company proving your ineptitude beyond all possible doubt. I think this is a win, is it? Nick
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