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RE: I just got one of those resumes

Subject: RE: I just got one of those resumes
From: Jean Hollis Weber <jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:53:17 +1000

Martin,
I think you've missed the point of Sharon's message: this applicant calls himself an "expert Word user" but doesn't use the tool as an expert would. What *is* she to think? That he's lying? That he thinks he's an expert but really hasn't a clue? That he's an expert in some parts of Word, but not in styles? Something else?

I don't consider myself to be a Word expert, though compared to my clients I certainly am. I know some features very well, and can fix some problems easily, but I know there are huge areas of stuff about Word (and Office) that I have never used and don't know anything about. And if I ever dealt with someone who thought being a Word expert included extensive use of, and knowledge about, macros, I'd fail straightaway.

Jean

At 04:45 PM 1/31/2002 -0700, Smith, Martin wrote:

I think I could teach him to use my FrameMaker template in about 20 minutes.
<snip>
When I started this job I promised myself that I would never ask an
applicant about tool use and I meant it.

Martin R. Smith

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Burton-Hardin [mailto:sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:09 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: I just got one of those resumes

Unsolicited. His resume is called Techwriter.doc (not exactly, but I don't
want to tell you exactly what it is, so as to hide him if he is on the
list). He hand spaced (space, space, space, space, space, space, etc) the
header with his contact info - no tabs, everything is wrapping really badly.
Everything is style Normal and all other formatting is hand done. Italics,
bold, underlined all my hand. Larger and smaller font for things all set by
hand.

And his first tool listed in "Expert Level Microsoft Office".

I am sure he is a nice guy. Maybe a good or great writer. He lists 20 years
of experience.

What am I supposed to think?

sharon


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