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I am fortunate enough to be the guy that culls applications and hires people that I hope can do an entry level job, and show up on time.

I agree with Para. It's evidence of a real person. You don't have to be a good speller to be a good dishwasher. We need people who will do an entry level job, and show up on time.

Had one come in and apply for a boiler operator position. He was navy and had a great looking and impressive resume.
the recruiters were so impressed and told the company they needed to hire the guy ASAP. My Dad walked in to interview him and started asking questions about the ship this guy was on. Where is this and where is that and how do they do this on the ship. The guy just stood up and walked to the door and before he opened it to leave he turned around and asked him how he knew so much about the ship. Dad just raised his sleeve and showed a tattoo of the ships name on his forearm. He was the senior chief machinist mate on that ship during Vietnam.
He admitted having a Navy friend write his resume and pad it to make him look good.

Years ago I was interviewing candidates for a secretarial position. One applicant stated that her last position was flippin boogers. Yummmm

My thoughts on seeing the resume is that you have to cut the guy some slack. Given the experiences he's listed, he wasn't being pretentious.

He is proud of what he's done and accomplished. If it was an entry level job that's going to get training anyway, I would give him an interview at least.

I would rather take a person with a good attitude and willing to learn than someone who thinks he knows it all already.

I was talking with someone about the hiring process and interviews - she works up in Vancouver. She had someone come in for an interview and it came out that the interviewee had a side-hustle running an escort service and she was quite proud of her entrepreneur experience in starting the business as well as being being one of the 'resources' for clients.

I am not going to bash the applicant. However the multiple short duration employments MAY suggest reliability or longevity problems.

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Originally posted by GrumpyMCO:
I was talking with someone about the hiring process and interviews - she works up in Vancouver. She had someone come in for an interview and it came out that the interviewee had a side-hustle running an escort service and she was quite proud of her entrepreneur experience in starting the business as well as being being one of the 'resources' for clients.

Hey man, ho's got to eat too.

I don't know what job the OP's guy was looking for, but he's probably very qualified as a line cook and dishwasher. He hasn't been real stable in his jobs, though.

Then there's the candidate who just got out of the USMC and applying for a tech writer position.

Seems he earned five metals in Afghanistan.

My retried USMC counterpart didn't call the candidate in.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Then there's the candidate who just got out of the USMC and applying for a tech writer position.

Seems he earned five metals in Afghanistan.

My retried USMC counterpart didn't call the candidate in.

Those retried guys are hard-asses.

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Then there's the candidate who just got out of the USMC and applying for a tech writer position.

Seems he earned five metals in Afghanistan.

My retried USMC counterpart didn't call the candidate in.

Those retried guys are hard-asses.

I believe he wasn't hired as a Tech Writer because he spelled medals as "metals"

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For someone just out of high school? What would they put on it? "

State Champion Varsity Crew, '18, coxman. Debating team, lead '19-'21. Student Council VP '17-'19. Candy Striper, Blahblah Hospital, '14-'16."

For me, it'd be closer to "Wholesale food products materials handler. Received a 5¢ per hour raise after only six months ..."

I'm in a position to hire a couple of people into my department. This is new to me.

I'm seeing some interesting things on resumes, and I'm sure I don't even know what gems I'm overlooking.

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Originally posted by SFCUSARET:

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
My retried USMC counterpart didn't call the candidate in.

Those retried guys are hard-asses.

I believe he wasn't hired as a Tech Writer because he spelled medals as "metals"

Well, yeah... But jhe888 was sneakily commenting on the fact that the guy posting about the failed applicant misspelling "medals" also himself managed to misspell "retired".

No, no, he was a retried Marine.

He was in, got out, then retried it again.

At least you are reading the resumes. Seems like these days lazy HR is just using applicant tracking systems (ATS) to search for "key words" which basically force applicants to put those words into a resume.

I'm in the process of finding civilian work again as I leave active duty service soon. Let's see if this time will be easier than the last time I looked for work. I hope it will be easier, I have more education, more work experience and have my LinkedIn set up. Been reading that a lot of companies are hiring.

Wife said they frequently got pictures with applications back in the day. Headshots, candid shots, sometimes even bikini pics. It was entry level administrative assistant type stuff or entry level minimum wage assembly stuff.

I'm hitting the job market for the fist time in 14 years pretty soon. I'll try to remember to not list that I won the 4th grade speling bee.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
At least you are reading the resumes. Seems like these days lazy HR is just using applicant tracking systems (ATS) to search for "key words" which basically force applicants to put those words into a resume.

HR is the realm of lazy, incompetent boobs. Way too many HR departments use these systems and I've found many applicants slipped through my companies' cracks b/c the fools in HR can't bother "reading". It's gotten to the point that I've told HR in my current and last company that they should just send me all the resumes (or link to the IT portal where I can review them) for any potential direct reports & those that apply to my reports. Those folks then tell me that's their job to review applicants (trying to protect their sorry asses). Nope, I'm in senior leadership and that ship don't sail...
No wonder on every annual performance review I've had for the last 5 years, it states that I don't suffer fools and the company has superior performance b/c of it.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
No, no, he was a retried Marine.

He was in, got out, then retried it again.

In my day, a Marine who got out and came back was known as a retread.

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Originally posted by Sig209:
i think one of the worst 'disabilities' some people have is simply the ability to effectively communicate in the English language

I think the most painfully awkward interview I ever conducted was for a carpenters apprentice type position, interviewing a guy who spoke only a few words of English. He basically made noises and hand gestures as answers to all our "describe how you would do.." questions. It was SO strange, so uncomfortable, like I said, painfully awkward, I felt like sliding under the table to hide. The odd part was he wasn't answering in Spanish either, he just kept making sounds, grunt, groans, not English or Spanish.

The real sad part was, even though he only made hand motions and noises, we all agreed "Ya know, he probably knows how to do the things we were asking." He would have turned out FAR better than the person who ended up getting the job, (though admittedly they set the bar really low ). His non verbal answers were better than some that spoke perfect English. lol But not enough of that crew were Spanish speakers and we knew he wouldn't be able to work with everyone if we hired him.