June 13, 2006

• Chinese Resumes

  After posting my job description up on a local university bulletin board, in two days I received about 300 resumes. This is the first time I've ever had to sift through so much shit stuff I just wanted to share some insight on the resumes I received.

  It's unfortunate but about 20% of them I deleted right off the bat because they sent me a Chinese version. I just didn't want to sift through all the bs. Resumes I got also are very messy. I don't think anyone ever taught them how to format a word document. And really random things too. One guy's name was Peter Parker. I guess it worked because it got me to look at his resume. There was this one girl, whose name was Harry. Thankfully her resume was not so good and I didn't have to discriminate based on her name. Many resumes also had indication of status (single, married etc.), sex, age and health! The answer for health always was "good". I guess it's useful to know that I would hire someone healthy, although it's possible to lie on a resume.

  I also got resumes from people who had MBA's, masters in finance and economics, engineering, thermodynamics, automation, really frackin random. Most of my candidates had 3.5 GPA's or higher. Most could speak more than one language, popular ones outside of English included German, French, Japanese and Russian.

  In the end, I deleted people who I thought were too smart and would likely leave after 2 months, people who had a long history of working in fields completely unrelated to ours (insurance, banking, medical, thermodynamics), and people that had poor English on their resumes.

  I've set up interviews and have been meeting them in 10 minute intervals. Unfortunately, I'm only at a 10% hit rate now. This is going to be a long process.

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