Do not send your resume out to someone with "Track Changes" enabled. It just means your potential employer can actually watch your lies being written in front of them.
]]>I've heard it suggested that some places ask for plain-text e-mailed resumes as a technical competence filter, since it's actually harder for most people to send plain text than to attach a Word document.
]]>That or maybe sprinkling pixie dust on the resume.
]]>I've recently sent out a document on a listserv which not only had track changes but also honest (mean? even) commentary (and the original author of the document was on the listserv). many many mistakes in that one.
]]>My previous company was supplying services to the very company that markets Word. During a price negotiation, they sent us a Word document of suggested prices for the next year which they had fast-saved so that it still contained the prices they had offered to competitors. That made our negotiations *much* easier. I guess that's what they call "eating your own dogfood."
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Not that that will prevent anyone from sending resumes with their edits...
]]>anyway, anyone interested in a blog for job-hunting? I know there is the digital media job blog, but something more expansive and not run by some super-large commercial enterprise like monster might be useful.... I am willing to partake in it/help out if anyone wants email me brian[AT]breslin.com
]]>No, sprinkling pixie dust on your resume gets the business to which you are applying evacuated by a HAZMAT crew and men in dark glasses showing up at your doorstep with questions.
]]>Oh my.
]]>ask anyone who is looking for a job if there are many good jobs out there. there's your REAL proof.
]]>This guy downloaded *.doc documents from Microsoft's web site and looked for changes and found quite a bit of amusing stuff.
]]>The problem seems to be that I'm not getting through the online automated resume input/filtering systems. I can't answer "Do you have a bachelor's degree?" with a 'Yes', because that would be dishonest. But I realize that answering 'No' to that question immediately roundfiles your resume. And don't even bother calling the company and asking to talk to a recruiter or someone in HR.
I also can't get someone from another area to look at my resume because they don't want to relocate an entry-level employee, and I live in Portland, OR -- one of the worst economies in the nation right now. It looks like I'm going to end up moving in with my parents in LA and then starting to look again down there with a local address.
(And Anil, by the way, comment previewing is broken. Moz 1.6/WinXP)
]]>You have to be joking. Ever taken a statistics class? I couldn't ask enough people to make that question worth while or relevant.
Unemployment stats are calculated the same way time after time. Compare the latest unemployment figures with the past 40 years and you'll find out its average.
This whole misconception that the unemployment figures are high comes from ignorance. Unless you believe in conspiracies, in which case you keep that tinfoil hat strapped on tight.
]]>100 people in a market area (typically a city or in rural areas a county) are called via telephone and asked, "Are you looking for work right now?" ... if the answer is "yes", they are counted as unemployed. If the answer is "no", they are not counted as unemployed... whether or not they have a job. Of course, this is a self-selecting group -- only those who can be reached and who are not on 'do not call lists' (or whom, like me, use a cellular phone as their only phone) are included. The number of people receiving unemployment benefits is also ignored in these federal unemployment survey figures. The two numbers only jive by random chance.
The number is generally irrelevant. Statistically, it isn't a sound measurement of the number of unemployed people in a specific area... 100 people is a decent sample size for rural Grant's Pass in Oregon, but is not a stastically significant sample by any means in Portland. Also, the point that the previous poster made -- "... there are many GOOD jobs out there" (emphasis mine)... the unemployment rate doesn't in any way address the qualitative measure of unemployment -- the fact that someone, to get work, would have to take a demotion and a large pay cut and isn't willing to do that. Numbers do not tell all.
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