Ok, you idiots. You want a job? Do you know how to get a job? You have to present yourself well. No, you have to present yourself as perfect as you can be. There’s a lot of conflicting advice as to whether you have to answer questions 100% perfect in an interview or whether you should just be yourself. The answer is both. Be yourself and be 100% perfect. If you’re good, this should be easy for you.
Now, the reason for this bitching is because I’m doing interviews now. These are interviews for decent jobs. I don’t actually know the pay scale, but 50-80k is not out of line. The jobs are for computer programming, so a level of precision is somewhat expected. Why then, of the last four resumes, do I see spelling and grammatical errors? Why, you stupid people?
The two resumes I got today each had at least five mistakes in them, and I even purposely ignored punctuation and poor sentence structure. How can this happen? The one resume was five pages long – which is ridiculous to begin with. Apparently, all the technical terms were generating spell-check warnings, so spell-checking was probably turned off for the document. Stupid. Are you in some kind of hurry? Do you not understand proofreading?
You’re not solely to blame, either. Your resumes are being submitted by recruiting firms. They missed the errors as well! Do you realize you are literally giving money to people who are doing nothing but sitting between you and an employer? This recruiter is doing nothing for you. They copy your resume text into their template and call it a day. In one of the two resumes from today, the document formatting changed midway through. The recruiter’s standards are just as low as yours.
It gets better. The first interview for today has cancelled. You don’t cancel an interview unless you got a great offer. Someone out there looked at the resume, either didn’t notice the mistakes or didn’t care about them, interviewed this guy and hired him. This is what we’ve come to. We’ve had candidates come in wearing business casual clothes instead of a suit. We have resumes submitted with multiple mistakes. We have to accept these shortcomings from candidates because if we don’t someone else will snatch them up? Screw that.
But I’ve been instructed to not point out these problems in the interview. So go ahead, fools, see how low you can take the standard.
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