Joel Rants About Resumes

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 26, 2004 @04:31AM 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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Rant about HTML by Albanach · 2004-01-26 04:54 · 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.