As you may know, I’m trying to hire for a few positions. I’ve been tweeting about it a fair bit, so if you follow me, I offer my humble apologies. The process is quite exhausting, but I’ve found doing it internally yields better results than using agencies.
The small win I’m celebrating is that I finally filled one of the positions. So just 4 more to fill. Yay.
Still, I’m blown away by the things people do to try and get noticed. I’ve talked to some friends who are in human resources full time about good ways to benchmark people’s applications, and have also tried to help an awesomesauce friend in refining his applications by putting my experience on both sides of the recruitment fence to work.
Clever creativity is key in getting the attention of those who have the sometimes always painful job of trawling through the emails. And for me, it’s a good way of putting into action my constant prayer for more of patience.
I thought I’d seen most of the ludicrous attempts to capture my attention until yesterday, when I received an application typed entirely in a font very similar to the one below.
If you are the person who sent this to me…what on earth were you thinking????
I suppose I should be happy that it wasn’t snailmailed on parchment shouldn’t I…
Or maybe I should. I don't want to think about them any more for a while
love
April 7, 2009
hahahahahaha! I had to go through applications once and pick a few to be interviewed..and I sympathize with you! some were on wild colored paper, some had a scent..some were pages and pages long..i really wanted to hold a "this is how you should send a resume" class.