Resume time

I got to review the resumes we received for my position today. Some of them were great, and of course were immediately tossed aside... Overqualified = Expensive. Experienced = Costly. That was about 60% of the applicants. The rest was spotty at best. More than 1/3 of those either sent in poorly formatted resumes or had no experience or skills we required at all. Why didn't it occur to them to check how their resumes looked before they sent them out? Unaligned sentences, colliding headings and highlights, distracting logos and unnecessary graphics, what were they thinking?! A few didn't even type a word, just sent a blank email with their resume attachment. One sent his resume in InDesign format, like, are you kidding me? You couldn't bother to at least export it to PDF? That couldn't leave that good an impression to the hiring people, could it? There just weren't that many that fit what we were looking for.

The right candidate should have little to some graphics experience, like 1 to 2 years. My manager really liked the ones that just graduated from college.

Recent graduates = Cheap! 20 somethings = Yep you guessed it, Cheap!

I managed to pull 6 people out of the bunch. Some seemed more suitable than others, on the paper now anyways. My manager will call and get a couple of them in for interview next week. Good luck to him.

I told my manager that he won't find another person like me. His response? "Thank God!"

But he laughed. He knew I was right. Hopefully I will help him land someone pretty close before I go. I was overwhelmed at first too, in time, he or she will catch up.

He or she just needs to be cheap, and very willing. Ha!