'The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered'

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by pdog

Personally I think ignoring the unemployed is BS. It's not really that hard to scan a resume in 30 seconds and determine if that person has the skill set you are looking for. Just don't depend on a recruiting firm to send you candidates - bad ones will send everyone and their mother to interview.

That said, I've interviewed some people for software positions who had all sorts of acronyms (e.g. SQL, HTML) on their resume and yet couldn't speak intelligently about any of them.

When I had to vet resumes, I found that fully 75% of them were professionally prepared. That tells you nothing about the candidate, apart from the fact he doesn't trust his written skills. Essentially all of those got tossed, on spec.