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To be honest, this resume would likely pass my hiring screen. It's obviously a person with a hilarious sense of humor, who thinks out-of-the-box, and super-crea

by blagie 5y ago

To be honest, this resume would likely pass my hiring screen. It's obviously a person with a hilarious sense of humor, who thinks out-of-the-box, and super-creative. If nothing else, they seem worth meeting. Interview would tell if it's a crazy person, someone who would burn my team, or exactly the type of person I'd want to hire. I've seen all three. I'll also mention: Humor isn't the same as fraud; a resume like this isn't taking itself very seriously, but isn't fraudulent. I've done things analogous to this before -- submitting things into highly-selective processes which obviously didn't take themselves seriously -- and I've had a pretty good hit rate too (they were impeccably honest; not the sort of thing which would slip through the cracks by accident).

aahortwwy 5y ago
> isn't fraudulent The author didn't work at the companies they listed.
- CalChris 5y ago
  I would like to think that the obvious comic bits like the Rick Rolling and the vodka shots makes it clear not to take the rest seriously. However we live in a world where disclosing a security hole gets a threatened prosecution from the Governor of Missouri. Was Sokal fraudulent in his publishing Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity? I would prefer to live in Sokal's world than in Parson's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
  - blagie 5y ago
    I think the word is "fit." When I submit something which shows my personality, it's a very fast way to figure out whether a place fits my personality. I tend to lead with who I am. Let's pretend this resume reflected my personality (it doesn't, but I've submitted things people would find equally inappropriate). There's a very quick screen on the other side. Let's say you submitted something like this. - If they say "this is fraud," it's probably Parson's world. You won't fit. - If they say "this is hilarious, let's talk to this guy," it probably is a fit. I tend to lead with who I am, quirks, warts, and all. It saves everyone a lot of time. I can think of one or two times it's turned off people or organizations I later wanted to work with, but just one or two times. I can think of many more times it's opened doors.
- Consultant32452 5y ago
  I suspect they also did not give 60% of the interns herpes.
  - aahortwwy 5y ago
    They didn't confirm or deny that on Reddit.
- spurgu 5y ago
  I am your boss. You need to be at work at 5 am tomorrow.
jollybean 5y ago
"Interview would tell if it's a crazy person, someone who would burn my team, or exactly the type of person I'd want to hire. " I find this is hard to guage in interviews. Also, if they are making stuff up, it's hard to know which parts of their background are legit, which matters.
- blagie 5y ago
  > I find this is hard to guage in interviews. Generically, yes. The types of crazy this resume signals? It's usually very obvious, very quickly. > Also, if they are making stuff up, it's hard to know which parts of their background are legit, which matters. No, it's really not. If it's hard to tell, they're the wrong type of "quirky." On an interview like this, my expectation is that I'd have an idea of what the resume was commenting on within maybe 5 minutes, and have them figured out within 10 minutes. Either at that point: - I understand in greater depth what their resume was a commentary on, have a better idea of their thoughts about hiring process, and know a lot more about them and how they think about these things. - Have them try keep the joke going, or make continued inappropriate comments, or otherwise have some serious red flags. Something in the middle is probably an interesting conversation, but a no-hire. If they can't communicate clearly, that's a yellow flag. In combination with a resume like this one, that's enough of a yellow flag that it's a no hire. With a resume like this one, they'd damn well better have a good game plan going in. Good rule-of-thumb: I'm very glad to go out on a limb to interview someone with a nontraditional background. The cost is a day. I'm absolutely not willing to go out on a limb to do a high-risk hire. A bad hire costs a lot. A resume like this one signals someone is exceptional, and the goal of the interview is what kind of exception.
selcuka 5y ago
It depends. It is definitely humorous, but it looks like the humor was thrown in to not make it outright fraudulent. It still feels wrong to insert random company names into their resume to bypass AI screening tools (and in some cases, humans).

by blagie 5y ago

aahortwwy 5y ago

> isn't fraudulent The author didn't work at the companies they listed.

CalChris 5y ago
I would like to think that the obvious comic bits like the Rick Rolling and the vodka shots makes it clear not to take the rest seriously. However we live in a world where disclosing a security hole gets a threatened prosecution from the Governor of Missouri. Was Sokal fraudulent in his publishing Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity? I would prefer to live in Sokal's world than in Parson's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
- blagie 5y ago
  I think the word is "fit." When I submit something which shows my personality, it's a very fast way to figure out whether a place fits my personality. I tend to lead with who I am. Let's pretend this resume reflected my personality (it doesn't, but I've submitted things people would find equally inappropriate). There's a very quick screen on the other side. Let's say you submitted something like this. - If they say "this is fraud," it's probably Parson's world. You won't fit. - If they say "this is hilarious, let's talk to this guy," it probably is a fit. I tend to lead with who I am, quirks, warts, and all. It saves everyone a lot of time. I can think of one or two times it's turned off people or organizations I later wanted to work with, but just one or two times. I can think of many more times it's opened doors.
Consultant32452 5y ago
I suspect they also did not give 60% of the interns herpes.
- aahortwwy 5y ago
  They didn't confirm or deny that on Reddit.
spurgu 5y ago
I am your boss. You need to be at work at 5 am tomorrow.

jollybean 5y ago

"Interview would tell if it's a crazy person, someone who would burn my team, or exactly the type of person I'd want to hire. " I find this is hard to guage in interviews. Also, if they are making stuff up, it's hard to know which parts of their background are legit, which matters.

blagie 5y ago
> I find this is hard to guage in interviews. Generically, yes. The types of crazy this resume signals? It's usually very obvious, very quickly. > Also, if they are making stuff up, it's hard to know which parts of their background are legit, which matters. No, it's really not. If it's hard to tell, they're the wrong type of "quirky." On an interview like this, my expectation is that I'd have an idea of what the resume was commenting on within maybe 5 minutes, and have them figured out within 10 minutes. Either at that point: - I understand in greater depth what their resume was a commentary on, have a better idea of their thoughts about hiring process, and know a lot more about them and how they think about these things. - Have them try keep the joke going, or make continued inappropriate comments, or otherwise have some serious red flags. Something in the middle is probably an interesting conversation, but a no-hire. If they can't communicate clearly, that's a yellow flag. In combination with a resume like this one, that's enough of a yellow flag that it's a no hire. With a resume like this one, they'd damn well better have a good game plan going in. Good rule-of-thumb: I'm very glad to go out on a limb to interview someone with a nontraditional background. The cost is a day. I'm absolutely not willing to go out on a limb to do a high-risk hire. A bad hire costs a lot. A resume like this one signals someone is exceptional, and the goal of the interview is what kind of exception.

selcuka 5y ago

It depends. It is definitely humorous, but it looks like the humor was thrown in to not make it outright fraudulent. It still feels wrong to insert random company names into their resume to bypass AI screening tools (and in some cases, humans).