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Originally Posted by c172g
1. If you are sending me a resume to look over, do something to make it different. Put a snappy phrase under your name like many of you do with your ID's here. This won't work with all employers, but I really like to laugh. If somebody put "insane" under their name in small letters (or next to it) or anything different than a white or manilla peice of paper in the standard format of every resume I see (and they all come straight out of MS Word's formats) I'd be calling the person way before anybody else. I joke with my customers and vendors, and anybody who works here best not be a stiff. I imagine there are some employers who will see it and pitch immediately, but something different will set you apart from the rest.
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That will work for or against you. A lot of larger companies, particularly those with an HR department that resumes go thru, have software that scans in the resume, get fancy on the resume, and it won't read it cleanly, and now you've made someone actually work.. Thumbs down.
I see a lot of resumes for a variety of positions (usually at customer sites, who will ask me to look at resumes of people they are hiring for our software) Unless you arehiring for a graphics/design type position... Fancy schmancy doesn't impress me and I will ignore it because you are covering your inadequacies with a fancy face. You got skills -- show me the skills.. in black and white print.