Joel Rants About Resumes

rbrandis writes "Mr. Spolsky's latest rant is about writing a resume that will be read "Please do not use cover letters that you copied out of a book. If you write 'I understand the position also requires a candidate who is team- and detail-oriented, works well under pressure, and is able to deal with people in departments throughout the firm' then at best people will think you're a bullshit artist and at worst they will think that you were not born with the part of the brain that allows you to form your own thoughts and ideas.""

Comments

Re:Agreement, and then some.

[Bigby]

b) Illiterate: I'm a poor speller too, but I found "spell check" and a proofreader, why can't you?
c) Inflexable:

If only Slashdot had a spell checker...

Rant about HTML

[Albanach]

Joel might think it's c00l to rant and use international accents all over the place, but littering his HTML with 8 bit characters is asking for someone to rant right back. If he wants an accent in the word resume he should use & eacute; without the space that /. doesn't like rather than copying and pasting his blog text from Word.

Re:Agreement, and then some.

[ArseneLupin]

b) Illiterate: I'm a poor speller too, but I found "spell check" and a proofreader, why can't you?
c) Inflexable:

I agree, Slashdot's integrated spellchecker is indeed hard to find...

Re:Agreement, and then some.

[doc_traig]

b) Illiterate: I'm a poor speller too, but I found "spell check" and a proofreader, why can't you? ...
c) Inflexable ...


I think you might need to find a different spell check... ;)