Re: Boilerplate resume items for otherwise uninspiring jobs

["Chris Morton" <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

If they can provide any numbers regarding performance, or cite any awards
(cashier of the year), those would help.

If you can show me they can think on their feet, have great customer
repoire, are loyal to their employer, and have motivation, these are all
traits that are sadly missing in today's consumer world. Also, if there are
any stats showing that, out of X number of POS transactions, he/she
committed the lowest number of errors, that'd be an important bragging
right.

If they belonged to any relevant clubs, such as Junior Achievement, that
would be something to add. If they're just starting their career, even
demonstrated leadership skills in something like Outward Bound or the HS
debating club may be important.

If they know their way around computers and can cite basic proficiency in
such apps as Word and Excel, those skills are important. If they are
technically inclined and can troubleshoot a PC and/or printer, those are
great skills. A gig with a temp agency, if they can nab one, might be useful
in leapfrogging their career.

Do they have any Web exerience beyong YouTube and MySpace? That is, do have
any clue what HTML and FTP are? These might be useful skills in helping a
small company maintain its website in addition to their primary duties.

> Chris

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Rob Hudson <caveatrob -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Terrific. This is the kind of feedback I crave! I want to be honest, of
> course, but not miss any opportunity to add anything that's reasonable
> to add. And I haven't even asked about the rhetoric of accounting for
> gaps in employment.
>
> Al Geist wrote:
> > Richard Combs wrote:
> >
> > "If I were hiring retail clerks, I'd toss the resume that (was) trying to
> > snow (me) with ... pompous BS?"
> >
> > I'd schedule an interview for the one that said "Operated a cash
> > register, counted, and closed out the drawer at the end of the night."
> >
> > Right on Richard. I once ran a large computer sales/service organization
> and
> > I can tell you from experience that if you pump up your resume with
> "pompous
> > BS" it would end up in the circular file. I didn't need pompous, I needed
> > people who could run cash registers, close a drawer at the end of their
> > shift, perform outstanding customer service, and new there way around a
> > computer system. If I got a resume filled with gobblygook, my opinion of
> the
> > person was someone who would inflate their resume with important sounding
> > words, but was probably incapable of doing the job.
> >
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