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I recently joined a new company and we need to hire a lot of people. About 800 resumes were stored on my laptop and I was going through them like a hot knife through butter. Things slowed down jus
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New Resume Format

posted at 3/20/2004 1:39 PM EDT
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I recently joined a new company and we need to hire a lot of people. About 800 resumes were stored on my laptop and I was going through them like a hot knife through butter.

Things slowed down just a little when I clicked on one applicant's attached resume because it was done in Microsoft Excel.

LOL...that's different! It was attractive and the gridlines made a nice, virtual watermark.

Anybody else seen anything like that? I had to chuckle.
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New Resume Format

posted at 8/12/2004 9:05 AM EDT
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First: 8/12/2004
Last: 10/27/2009
I've seen that done, but not effectively. Was it a financial/accounting position that the person was applying for?
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New Resume Format

posted at 8/12/2004 4:17 PM EDT
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First: 8/11/2004
Last: 3/7/2005
There was this person who had sent her resume in MS Paint format!!!
She said she just count paste her pic in Word (for some reason I fail to understand even after 17 months)...
The resume was in a horrible mess.

(ofcourse we din't hire her...)
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New Resume Format

posted at 10/18/2004 2:53 PM EDT
Posts: 13
First: 9/28/2004
Last: 12/4/2007
I applied for a plant manager position by only submitting an 9 X 11 booklet of a white paper that I did on international management for the SHRM. The first page had a summary of my background. I was one of two candidates out of 100 applicants selected for an interview.
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