Monday, May 15, 2006
Newsbits
- I'll be leaving on Wednesday for the annual Poetry West retreat at Colorado College's Baca campus, and returning Sunday. I'll probably post again before I leave, but just in case, that's why no updates late in the week or on the weekend.
- One more call in case you're interested in helping with the Journal Database Project, which is now up to 60 outlets for poetry. That's not a lot, but it's a good start. If you want to help add to it, follow that link, sign up for an account, and let me know. I'll get you going.
- One of my resume writing peeves I've mentioned previously is HR people who have terrible resumes despite the fact that they read dozens in the course of their work. I'm developing a new peeve these last couple weeks: people who think I should psychically know what to add to their resume. Twice now in that time span, I've used everything relevant in a client's source material and had them say they want more content in the resume. That part is fine--it's when I ask them "Okay, since I've used all the material you sent, what content do you want to add?" that it all goes to hell. They think that me knowing a lot about finance or IT resumes means I know what they did in their job, which would be quite a feat. One guy freaked out at me because I didn't try to guess what courses he took in college--no exaggeration anywhere in that sentence. It's made even worse by the fact that these clients were both non-native English-speakers whose woeful resumes I improved greatly. Bleh.
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well, on the contrary, i think the reason many hr people are horrible at writing resumes is that they rarely read them. at least that's what i keep telling myself.
w.v. fuhdq (elmer's pre-anglicisation surname)
w.v. fuhdq (elmer's pre-anglicisation surname)
i'm definitely one of those HR people whose resume looks like shit. And a.d. is right, we rarely look at them. We have other people who do that for us. Sad, I know.
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