Trouble in Paradise
cmeinla
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early warning BLISS post.
There's only 7 posts right now, but it may get better.
It's about her resume. I wonder if she went to a community college, because this whole thing may be a moot point...
http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/62448227.aspx
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Re: early warning BLISS post.
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
I'll admit that my CV is two pages, but that's due to my company's guidelines. I don't see how someone entering the workforce has enough stuff to go past one page.
From what I have been hearing lately, one page resumes are almost a thing of the past. However, this is for professionals, not someone listing multiple service jobs etc...
There is no way my resume could be a one pager without writing everything in short hand. However, it only takes a quarter of the second page.
Yeah, all bets are off in academia. CVs are a bit different from resumes, of course, but I recently saw one that was 47 pages long.
This reminds me of the 12-page CV that landed on my desk at my first job out of college. I had to get it down to a one paragraph biography blurb for some conference literature. I managed to do it just fine.
The lesson I took away from that: tis better to edit yourself than have someone else do it for you.
True, but she's not in academia. She's in...pseudo PR? Looks to me like classic little man syndrome and she is just adding fluff to the resume to make herself seem more important. Good luck with that.
She is pathologically narcissistic, she thinks she's the bee's knees. Remember how she scoffed at working minimum wage? She deserves more because she is experienced!
When I was first out of college, career services told me I had enough volunteer work that I should do two pages. I am now down to one.
I think it is almost worse to have a page and a half or a page and a quarter. One whole page or two whole pages. I would probably toss a page-and-a-half resume.
I filled in at a temp agency years ago. I actually received a resume that listed all of this books that the applicant had recently read. Then again, it was still only one page. Most of the books were about trains. He was awesome.
Still not as awesome as the "do you mean any crime or just really bad shiit" lady, the KKK members who came in together and were each other's references, the lady who assured me that even though she had no license her boyfriend was reliable transportation as I saw him get bored and drive away and leave her there, the people who abbreviated pregnant when listing a reason for leaving their last job because they had to write it so many times that the abbreviation was a legitimate timesaver, the guy who came on to me while I was firing him, or ALL OF THE PEOPLE who could not spell the names of their past employers. Oh! Or the woman who brought her kid with her and then ask me to watch him while she ran out for some smokes. Don't get me started on all of the ways a person can fail a drug screen.
One-page in corporate world. Not hard. FFS why does no one believe that's the rule? I'm actually obsessive about keeping my thing to one page. I've worked a TON of random jobs and guess what... they do not all have to be on your resume! My corporate contacts don't care that I delivered chinese food for 2 years in college (it was awesome though).
We're currently interviewing and I can't even BELIEVE some of the crap people put on their resumes. I had one girl list all the places she's traveled to (we're not Conde Nast, azzhole). One guy listed where his driver's license is from and the number (we're not a transportation company). One guy listed something like this:
Athletics: I enjoy ice hockey
Sport [*note the singular form]: I enjoy many sports
ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?!
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
*snort
This makes me want to call my old temp agency and ask if I can fill in again. So much fun.
As a side note: There actually is a "correct" resume format. My dad does a lot of hiring in his company and he's shared it with me before. He got it from somewhere. I don't know. The man knows things.
If anyone wants it, I'll send it to you. And no, it does not include recently read books, travel destinations, sports activities or favorite color.
No lie... one time I reviewed a friend's mom's resume. It was in Comic Sans, and each paragraph was a different color. It was also written like an informal letter. Best resume ever.
I think it depends on your line of work when you get to 10+ years professional experience. I've been in my industry for 15 years and there are certain measurables you have to include for each job you have held in order to be taken seriously as an applicant. I don't know anyone in my industry with lengthy experience who can fit what is necessary on one page.
Because it's Bliss and that's what she does ALL THE TIME. I can't even open those threads anymore because they make me want to bang my head on the desk. I think she's looking for validation and not advice, which she never gets, but she continues to post.
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you. My Blog
In reading her follow ups in the post, when she said she was receiving conflicted information from her reliable sources about how to write a resume, I had a quick vision of her standing in a dark alley, being handed confidential resume-writing tips on a crumpled napkin by a guy dressed in a trenchcoat and brimmed hat. You know, all Deep Throat style.
A quick Google search could have been done on resume guidelines. Instead, she goes the AW route on MM. Shocking.
Edited: To fix grammar mistake.
You'd be surprised at how many extremely professional and experienced people do not know how to pare down a resume or not include the stupid shiit they've worked at over the years. I've had to essentially re-create dozens of them from CPA's, professors, HR professionals, project managers, etc. And they all sucked. Some were about 15 pages.
And Bliss is stupid.