resume humor - new recruit
NaeNae55
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A few weeks after a young man had been employed; he was called into the Human Resources administrator's office. "What is the meaning of this?" the HR officer asked. "When you applied for this job, you told us you had three years experience. Now I have discovered this is the first position you've ever held."
"True", the young man answered with a smile, "in your advertisement you said you wanted a person with imagination."
"True", the young man answered with a smile, "in your advertisement you said you wanted a person with imagination."
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She also scored a 0 out of 20 on the math test. After she complained that we didn't let her use a calculator, I handed her one and let her take the same test again. That made it 0 out of 40.
That's a great story Frank; don't we all wish it was one of a kind instead of becoming common?
How did the second interview go, Frank?
Now THAT is laziness.
She can't believe she's been out of work for 3 years. Go figure.
We get applications fairly often from women who have always worked what I call "hobby jobs". These are women whose husbands have always been the primary breadwinner so they themselves haven't HAD to work, but over the years when they've gotten bored because the kids were in school or they wanted to be able to buy something that went above and beyond their normal budget, they've taken a wide variety of jobs and generally held them for just long enough to make the money they wanted to buy their new furniture or whatever.
We have one who has applied a number of times in the past few years and her resume is quite a sizable volume any more...she lists every little job she's had since high school, most of them lasting six months or less. Because she's never had to stick with a job for financial reasons, a lot of her reasons for leaving are things like "didn't get along with the supervisor" or "had trouble learning the new computer system". So why she thinks we'd consider her for a position, given these issues, is WAY beyond me. But she keeps coming back, and always seems completely baffled that we wouldn't want to hire her.
My better half has recently been reviewing lots of applicaitons from High School seniors that are applying to attend college. She tells me that for the most part the spelling, punctuation, and type'os are awful. These kids are from all over the country and most of them are honor students.
Whether it is right or wrong, I definitely think less of an applicant or business contact when they communicate in "text speak." But, I guess those are my issues!
she gave us a "Letterman" Top Ten Reasons to hire her.
While, that may be fun and catch attention, she only put "inspirational type" quotes from other people in the list. (not actual quality/performance/knowledge related reasons)
A few years ago, I had one that labeled her "past employment" as "GIGS".
No... we are not a band.