Sep 26 2008
Resume Horror Stories
Yes, I have my share of resume stories on what not to do. For example, please do not send your resume to me if it already has food stains on it. I much prefer to put them there myself, and I just might, if I am really interested in you and really hungry at the time.
Skip the scented paper or making the resume smell for any reason. I will not elaborate on this, but you can guess what could happen. You already know how much I hate to be assaulted by other people’s colognes.
Of course there are a bazillion typos out there. The worst one involves the person in a rush who misspells her own name. Yes I am speaking about you, Ilnda. Another pet peeve I have is when there are formatting things that are inconsistent in the document like a dash instead of a word that changes to a word in the next paragraph and back again to a dash. Very sloppy looking, feeling and thinking here. Shows a lack of detail orientation and poor preparation.
So, don’t do it. Huh. (Private joke).
