Resume screening

So my mgr hands me a half inch wad of paper this arvo - at first I'm thinking oh boy another doc review. It turns out to be resumes for the prospective interns. Most of the resumes are only 1 or 2 pages at most. I spend about 30 seconds on skim reading the first resume. Half way through I reckon I'm down to 15 seconds. By the of the wad I'm down to about 10 seconds.

So what's the point? Well this is what I've learned (at least IMHO which is probably not typical of ppl in the recruitment process):

• Make your resume look good. Some resumes were like a maze to read. Left, right, up, down, 2 columns becoming 1. Oh boy.
• The online resume submission really butchers your resume. This isn't fair IMHO. Also recruiting filter out which fields they present. And you don't get to use bullet points on your resume. It just becomes ones long paragraph.
• They really do get skim read. By the end of it I was reading just verbs and key words.
• I found myself saying "wtf is this acronym?" a lot.
• Say what kind of position you are looking for. It helps a lot. Most of the applicants were appeared to know about many different things
• Experience counts. Experience and other activities ranked way higher than what courses you did. For academic stuff I looked about as far as the course name. Everyone seemed to have a scholarship/deans list etc etc. Everyone except for me proabably.

More than meets the eye

Free & legal transformer episodes. Extra points if you guessed it from the title of my post.

I stumbled upon this article on my new fav website digg. Jump straight to Hasbro's website and start downloading at http://www.hasbro.com/action/default.cfm?page=video&id=349.

Enjoy :)

Brahims

For a change I'm lost for words :). I can't even think of what to post so I thought I'd just stick up a pic of the chicken curry that I cooked the other night. Most of the credit must go to Brahim's paste which I brought back from Adelaide.

 

Thank you all!

For the birthday wishes! You all don't know how much it helps in feeling 'not so far away from you all' - Thank you.

Please bear with me as I return all of your emails. I've been unusually slack in this department.

SLVR City

Chicago was the next city to be part of Motorola's SLVR global marketting campaign. The SLVR advertising campaign has been "SLVR City" where they project images of SLVR onto city buildings all around the world.

So last Thursday we get an internal email saying "take a pic of Chicago's SLVR city and you'll have a chance to win a SLVR phone". A group of us decide to go downtown and see what all this hype is about and take a few pics. After enduring the sub-zero temperatures of downtown, we make our way to millenium park to discover that Motorola 'forgot' to tell us employees about a press launch party. To cut a long story short we see that it's an 'invite only affair' but manage to get in after showing that we work for Motorola! What an awesome party. Good DJ, open bar (stella, black label, effen vodka - top stuff!!!) and tasty finger food. Pictures always are worth a thousand words so head on over the my SLVR city flickr set.