job screening question

Sat Jul 7 02:09:54 UTC 2012

On 07/06/2012 16:16, George Herbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
>> On 06/07/2012 23:25, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>>> The Friday afternoon cynic in me says it's because it's a move with positive
>>> paybacks.  There's 3 basic possibilities:
>>>
>>> 1) You send the puffed resume to a company with clue, it gets recognized
>>> as puffed, and you don't get the job.  Zero loss, you weren't going to get
>>> that job anyhow.
>>>
>>> 2) You send a boring unpuffed resume to a company sans clue.  They recognize it
>>> as boring because there's only 3 buzzwords on 2 pages, and you don't get the
>>> job.  Loss.
>>>
>>> 3) You send a puffed resume, and the guy doing the hiring doesn't know what
>>> the 3-packet mating call of the Internet is *either*.  Win.
>>
>> or:
>>
>> 4) you get caught out in the interview as being puffed up, but the company
>> hires you anyway despite strongly worded objections from the interviewer,
>> causing the interviewer's eyes to spin in their sockets at the inanity of
>> the decision.  You then spend your entire employment at the company proving
>> your ineptitude beyond all possible doubt.
>>
>> I think this is a win, is it?
> 
> There's also
> 
> 5) Didn't have enough clue about the real world to know you were
> puffing your resume up.
> 
> 6) Puffed it up a little (worked with Cisco routers, but in the 7200
> era, and hasn't categorized skills as recent / older), but hasn't
> outright lied.

7) Were the beneficiary of some professional resume service/headhunter.
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