Thursday, August 9, 2007

Resumes

I have been sent a lot of resumes lately as I need to add two more people to my team. I need to review and screen these resumes and pick a few of them to arrange interviews with the people I think can fit in the team. I have seen a lot of strange things while reviewing these resumes, the following are the most stupid things one can write on a resume:

A software engineer wrote a description of a software called "Student City" that she worked on as follows:
Student City:It’s a software that manage the love of strangers girls who loves in student city.

Once I read that I could not stop laughing for almost five minutes, what the heck is she talking about? Most probably she wrote 'live' instead of 'love' (which also does not make sense) and then used a spell check or something. The result was really hilarious.

The second girl, who's also a software engineer wrote the following:
Name: XXXXXX
Address: XXXXX
Tel: XXXXX
Parents: Good united family condition. (Working).

As far as I know, no information about parents is required on a resume, so what was that girl thinking when she wrote this nonsense about her parents?

It is really pathetic to find these fatal mistakes on resumes written by universty graduates specially softwate engineers. A software engineer is supposed to be familiar with the internet, have good research skills. So I think when a software engineer wants to write a resume, he/she should google and find a templeate or guidlines or anything that helps with writing a resume instead of writing such crap on resumes.

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