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Originally posted by rsl12
kutulu: i completely disagree. Looking at the biographies is just as useful as when you're hiring someone and you look at the candidates' resumes.
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I see resumes as grossly overrated also. People can put whatever they want on a resume. In many states all an employer can ask about is if the person worked there, how long they worked there, and if they would be eligible for re-hire.
A resume is a tool to filter out the masses that have applied for a position. They present a candy-coated world where the person did everything right. you don't hear about how they dealt with their failures. Everybody has failures. You can learn a lot more about a person's character by asking about their failures and how they tried to better themselves in those times than you can from hearing about some filtered version of themselves.
The resume is just a tool that the employer uses to filter the masses of people that apply for a position. The real selections are based on how they presented themselves in a Q/A session, the actual interview.