Friday, July 01, 2005

GETTING RESUMES READ IN TODAY'S MARKET A friend sent me a link to Joel Spolsky's web site that featured an extremely interesting, informative and accurate article titled "Getting Your Resume Read" Posted on January 26, 2004.  The article can be found at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ResumeRead.html.  His article not only reinforces most of my previous comments on how important writing perfect resumes is in today's market but he writes with a certain passion from the perspective of a reader of resumes that makes his article so relative.  If anything Joel is even tougher on resume writers than I am which is saying quite a bit.  I had just finished reading his article when I received a resume from a candidate applying for an Injection Molding Supervisor position who consistently misspelled numerous words such as maintance(sic) even though the file was in Word so he must have had access to a spell check.  A second resume from a candidate responding to the same job had no space between about every other word.  Please read Joel Spolsky's article for the insight it provides on why it is so important to take the time to write a resume with as few mistakes (or no mistakes) as possible. 9:25:50 PM    comment []