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Joel Rants About Resumes

Posted by Hemos on from the keep-on-ranting-on dept.

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.""

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  1. Resumes by Klerck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Resumes. What's it all about? Is it good, or is it whack?

    1. Re:Resumes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      #oldwarez say's HI

  2. I love this guy.. by skraps · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    His writings are always good for a laugh or two, and the content is always very insigtful. Here is one of my favorite passages from his series on Painless Functional Specifications.

    Scenario 2: Cindy.
    Cindy is a teenager in high school. She goes to a pretty pathetic public high school, and she's pretty smart, so when she gets home at 2:00 pm, it only takes her about 7 minutes (on average) to do her Algebra homework. None of her other teachers even bother to give her homework. Her baby brother (half brother) is vegged out in front of the only TV set watching Teletubbies, so she spends the afternoon (from 2:07 until about 6:30, when her new mommy serves dinner) surfing the net and chatting with her friends on AOL. She's always looking for exciting new web sites. As a result of typing "What Time Is It?" randomly into a search engine (by mistake, she meant to ask one of her friends using Instant Messenger) she gets to WhatTimeIsIt.com, and sets up a new account. She chooses a user name and "RyanPhillipe" as her password, selects her time zone, and voila -- finds out what time it is.
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    Karma: -2147483648 (Mostly affected by integer overflow)
  3. Re:Agreement, and then some. by Bigby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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...

  4. Rant about HTML by Albanach · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

  5. Re:Agreement, and then some. by ArseneLupin · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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...

  6. Re:Agreement, and then some. by doc_traig · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    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... ;)

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    So long, michael. Don't let the door hit you...
  7. Re:Another day, another batch of applications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SHUT UP FAG

  8. Re:Maybe if you ate meat... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Scuse, la prochaine fois je verifirais mon orthographe avec un dictionaire, ostie de nazi.