The title of this Blog is a bit insulting and rightly so. It is meant to get your attention so that you do not pass over the article – - to make you take notice !!!
If you were driving down the street and you saw a Billboard but you couldn’t make out what it said because the worlds were too small and the message was hidden in a thousand words, you would probably not understand it or crash your car trying to figure it out.
But on the other hand, if it said “EAT AT JOE’S” there would be no mistaking the message.
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Here is an article I was emailed several years ago that I wish I could take credit for. It is certainly within the tone and theme of my blog. Thank you whom ever you are for this article:
Most people would agree that job interviews can be nerve racking. But regardless how nerve racking they can be, it is understood by most That there are things you should not do in an interview. Don’t bite your nails. Don’t interrupt. Don’t fidget in your seat. Indeed, the interviewee needs to make the best impression possible.
However, there are people who don’t make the best impression. Going around the Internet is a survey of top personnel executives of 100 major American corporations. The survey asked for stories of unusual behavior by job applicants during interviews. The following are some of the humorous and somewhat shocking responses:
1. Said he was so well qualified (that) if he didn’t get the job, it would prove that the company’s management was incompetent.
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In my almost nine years of recruiting, I have reviewed hundreds of thousands of resumes. In most cases, if you have the right skills and a decent enough looking resume, it is enough to get you an interview. It may not get you a job you are looking for, but really, that is not the purpose of a resume. The purpose is to market you with a roughly two to three page really big business card. This hopefully creates enough interest in your background to warrant a phone call or a face-to-face meeting with your new potential employer. After submission of the resume, the following — one to five interviews, reference checks, offer negotiations — are the things that really get you the job.
If your resume contains something that stops you from ever getting an interview, then you will, of course, never get the job. Yes, what if a recruiter, HR person or hiring manager looks down at your resume and by the sheer words on the paper elicits a cry of “What the F%&k”??!! This, my curious blog reader, is the “What the F%&K Factor” or “What not to write in a resume”.