Job and General Employment Thread

Postby **Factorial** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 9:42 am

What a wuss. He uses vim over vi.

Postby **tifosi77** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 8:13 pm

Résumés like that definitely have a place where they're acceptable. Like if you are applying to Hasbro to be part of the MLP team in whatever creative capacity. If you're in a creative field, that's fine. My friend that does home video packaging has done ressies like that over the years. The most recent one I remember was she did her ressie on a DVD keep case. She took some random photo of her and her band as a kind of like the one sheet for a 'movie', and the back of the case where the credits would be was her CV. Inside, she had a DVD-ROM loaded with her reel and a pdf of her traditional résumé.

Postby **columbia** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 8:18 pm

I have a new employee starting a few weeks and need to hire another one. Just one man's perspective on resumes and the hiring process:

If I have to read your cover letter to better understand your background, then your resume is either unclear or incomplete. In fact, If I don't see what I want on the resume, I don't bother to read the cover letter.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:23 pm

If I have to read your cover letter to better understand your background, then your resume is either unclear or incomplete. In fact, If I don't see what I want on the resume, I don't bother to read the cover letter.

The only purpose of a cover letter is to show you give a ****. Agreed--your resume should give me all of the information I need to know. Anything else will be hashed out with a phone screen. I am not sitting here reading cover letters.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:31 pm

When hiring for an entry-level/lower level position like I frequently hire for, the cover letter means more to me than the resume...but my field isn't entirely specialized...

The cover letter tells me about attention to detail, grammar/spelling, glimpses of personality, etc. ...the resume tells me that they worked as a bartender at two Drinker's locations during college...don't care...

In positions where experience is necessary, yes the resume carries more weight...but for me, I just glance over the resume for just some office experience and general formatting/spelling etc. What I'm hiring for requires consistent ability to format things probably and the ability to pay attention to what you're doing...not being able to format a resume correctly (and by that I mean, consistently...) means you aren't paying attention and/or don't know what you're doing...shift+delete...

Postby **shafnutz05** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:13 pm

That's a good point. For entry-level type positions, where the playing field is a lot more level, cover letters are a great indicator of attention to detail, effort, etc. I work for a transportation infrastructure consulting firm, so not so important for mid to senior-level engineers

Postby **dodint** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:15 am

I write my wifes cover letters and resumes.

Postby **NTP66** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 6:01 am

Cover letters mean diddly-squat in the IT world.

Postby **count2infinity** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 9:01 am

Got a call yesterday from a university saying they hadn't received one of my letters of rec and to contact the person asap to get it in. The deadline for the position was a couple months ago, so I'm guessing they're already reviewing candidates. I would imagine they wouldn't even bother contacting me if they weren't at least interested, but we'll see.

Postby **tifosi77** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 9:35 am

In my field, cover letters are fairly important. It's essentially a writing sample in a discipline where writing is a thing. They aren't a panacea, but they can certainly be the difference between the circular file and a follow up call.

Postby **dodint** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:09 am

In my field, cover letters are fairly important. It's essentially a writing sample in a discipline where writing is a thing. They aren't a panacea, but they can certainly be the difference between the circular file and a follow up call.

Which is why me writing my wife's is funny. She's a highly qualified paralegal and I'm an IT drone. Feds don't even use real resumes, either.

Postby **NTP66** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:10 am

Source of the post Feds don't even use real resumes, either.

Shocker.

Postby **dodint** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:14 am

As woeful as most Fed IT platforms are, USAJobs is a really great platform. It's great having a central resume in a standard format that you can send to any job on the system. Love it.

Postby **tifosi77** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:25 pm

This just popped up on my Facebook feed, thought I'd share.

Google just revealed the incredibly simple formula for killer résumés

Postby **dodint** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:34 pm

Nice to see their absurd interviewing process was found to be a complete waste of time so they halted the use of it.

Postby **Factorial** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:54 pm

Had a second interview today with a potential client of my employer. It was via web cam and they projected me on a big screen so all 5 people on their end could see me. Weird.

Postby **columbia** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:02 pm

Did you smoke during the interview?

Postby **Factorial** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:08 pm

No, went off screen and did a few lines of snuff.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:14 am

Had a staff meeting today, co-worker came to the meeting with a bowl of cereal.

I don't even.

Postby **Silentom** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:15 am

Did anyone piss in his Wheaties?

Postby **dodint** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:20 am

Nah, he stood off to the side.

Postby **count2infinity** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 4:30 pm

Mrs Dr. c2i is interviewing in Cleveland tomorrow, and it's looking like she will most likely get the job. That means I get to (have to) move to Cleveland. WOOOO. Now I just need to find a job.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 4:32 pm

Mrs Dr. c2i is interviewing in Cleveland tomorrow, and it's looking like she will most likely get the job. That means I get to (have to) move to Cleveland. WOOOO. Now I just need to find a job.

Congrats to your wife, but was really looking forward to the c2i-canaan-shad Victory dates

Postby **columbia** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 4:33 pm

Mrs Dr. c2i is interviewing in Cleveland tomorrow, and it's looking like she will most likely get the job. That means I get to (have to) move to Cleveland. WOOOO. Now I just need to find a job.

http://blog.octanner.com/culture/top-10 ... -cleveland

Postby **count2infinity** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 4:34 pm

I know man... we'll see what happens. She might get the offer and not want to take it, but I highly doubt that. We have nieces and nephews there. She's got a couple of really, really close friends there that I've also become good friends with. It would be almost a perfect fit provided she likes the job, so it's tough to say no.