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The first litmus test in this situation is "Is this 6 page resume an engaging read that delivers everything useful effectively?" If it doesn't and that is impo

The first litmus test in this situation is "Is this 6 page resume an engaging read that delivers everything useful effectively?" If it doesn't and that is important to you, this isn't your person. Equally, are you discounting this person just because you can't be bothered to spend an extra couple of minutes parsing their resume which upon closer inspection is solid gold? Being concise and communicating effectively doesn't necessarily mean the same thing.

kemiller2002 9y ago
You would not believe how many resumes I've seen with things like formatting issues and misspellings. I'm picky about getting technical terms correctly, but I understand that everyone might not know there are capital letters in random places in words. If you're going to misspell something, at least be consistent (no joke, I've seen resumes with JavaScript, Javascript and Java Script, and like three sentences apart from each other). Going through 6 pages of that along with phrasing issues is brutally draining. If you have a long resume, give a summary or something of each entry, so I can choose to see if what you are describing is what I'm looking for. With all that being said, I'm pretty forgiving. I understand that if you have English as a second language, you might not know all the nuances to grammar. I get it. I try and give some flexibility. So here's the thing, with all that in mind, you ask if I can't be bothered, no I can't. Just because someone spews something on a page and calls it a resume does not mean that I should take a look at it. Have some pride in what you send to people. Yes writing resumes suck, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't work at creating it. People say, "I don't know about design", or "I'm not a writer." 1. It's not that hard to understand the basics of design and layout. Buy a book. Read a website. Download a template off the internet. 2. Ask someone to look at it before you send it. It doesn't have to be great, but it least make it look like you care enough about what you do to make it decent.

kemiller2002 9y ago

You would not believe how many resumes I've seen with things like formatting issues and misspellings. I'm picky about getting technical terms correctly, but I understand that everyone might not know there are capital letters in random places in words. If you're going to misspell something, at least be consistent (no joke, I've seen resumes with JavaScript, Javascript and Java Script, and like three sentences apart from each other). Going through 6 pages of that along with phrasing issues is brutally draining. If you have a long resume, give a summary or something of each entry, so I can choose to see if what you are describing is what I'm looking for. With all that being said, I'm pretty forgiving. I understand that if you have English as a second language, you might not know all the nuances to grammar. I get it. I try and give some flexibility. So here's the thing, with all that in mind, you ask if I can't be bothered, no I can't. Just because someone spews something on a page and calls it a resume does not mean that I should take a look at it. Have some pride in what you send to people. Yes writing resumes suck, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't work at creating it. People say, "I don't know about design", or "I'm not a writer." 1. It's not that hard to understand the basics of design and layout. Buy a book. Read a website. Download a template off the internet. 2. Ask someone to look at it before you send it. It doesn't have to be great, but it least make it look like you care enough about what you do to make it decent.