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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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I'd Consider This An ImprovementIn the past, I've applied for jobs at big companies that have human resources departments that are run by buffoons. I'm obviously applying for technical jobs, and because I don't certain keywords in my resume, they'll end up tossing it, despite the fact that I'm more than qualified. I'm convinced that non-techy humans that are looking at techy resumes shouldn't be so quick to chunk things. I got a great response when I e-mailed my resume to a department head directly, but my resume didn't get through human resources. What it computers started to take over the process? It's starting to happen, and I'm welcoming it, as a computer can be programmed to know that experience in Citrix Metaframe XP means you know how to work (for the most part) Citrix Metaframe 1.8, for example. Or that having five years experience in Windows 2003, when it's only been out a year, is absolute bulls**t as well. I guess I just have standards. I won't pad my resume, and that's why I've never lost a job because of being unable to do something. Hopefully computers will be smart enough to weed out the morons. 1 Commentmonkeyinabox said on 06/04/04 @ 01:21 PM:I wouldn't say pad your resume, but these days with the vast amount of info available online it might be wise to say, 'Sure I can move your Cold Fusion database to SQL' even if you have no clue about either. I think this only applies to technology. Please, no one in the medical field should say 'Heart sugery, no problem I can figure it out'. Post a comment |
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