Resume with Picture

bamahr · October 2002

Anyone else recevied resume's with colored pictures? My favorite was the glamour shot with feathered boa. We are an Industrial Supply Company - not very glamorous.

Rockie · October 2002

Was the picture a male or a female?

bamahr · October 2002

No doubt - a female

Cxjo · October 2002

I've also received pics of people in their military outfits (to alert me they are veteran's perhaps??) and one with a guy, his wife, his 2.5 kids, and the dog -- all in front of the house with the white picket fence!

Renie · October 2002

Correct me if I am wrong but, I beleive that is how Bill Clinton hires his interns!

Don D · October 2002

OK girls!!

Renie · October 2002

Oh my! I didn't realize we were all gals! We don't sound catty do we?

I was serious about Bill though-
I thought I saw on Dateline (or some other news magazine) that a girl sent two copies of her resume with diferent names to be an intern on Bill Clinton's staff (post presidency) one with a good girl pic and one that was a bit more racey (tight sweater, cold room - you know) and the racier photo got a call back! Imagine that....

gab · October 2002

Once I received several pictures of a woman with several differnt outfits with one being in a bathing suit. She was wanting a flight attendant position which we do not offer at our company.

Don D · October 2002

Reminds me of working with the state staffing the new Boeing Military Airplane Company sight in Greenville, MS several years back. The first week of recruitment, we had over 5000 applicants. Everyone, I thought, knew exactly what Boeing did as a manufacturer. Of the 5000, I think I recall that seven (7) applied for flight attendant positions.

Paul in Cannon Beach · October 2002

On a more serious note (is that OK in this forum?) a colleague of mine who does a lot of recruitment at colleges (as do I) is recommending taking a digital camera along to photograph applicants and others who come by the booth so that he can remember them later.

I can understand the thinking (you see alot of applicants and you want to remember the ones that impressed you) but this goes against my practice of not accepting photos with applications.

Why not just write down the names of impressive applicants? Anyone else have a thought?

Paul

Cxjo · October 2002

No way would I take a picture of an applicant. The over 40/minority/individual with a visible disability could just come back to haunt you by saying "they refused to hire me and I it's because they took my picture and the hiring manager looked at it and decided to only interview the younger/white/non-disabled candidates" rather than me. Sort of the same principle that calls for self-disclosure forms of race/sex to be maintained separately - so there is not even an appearance of them being used in the hiring decision.

AnneLa · October 2002

I usually just slap a blank post-it note on the applicants resumes that I'm truly interested in while doing a job fair. No taking notes, it's very discrete, and no one is the wiser to what I'm doing...............

sonny · October 2002

I think that is a great idea and join the ranks of those who definitely would NOT take pictures.

Margaret Morford · November 2002

My husband has spent 22 years of his career as a Television News Director. He is constantly outraged by the number of "pretty people" that want to be a television news anchor, but care nothing about issues or journalism. One day he was particularly incensed about a young woman who sent in her resume and a picture that obviously came from her portfolio with her measurements recorded in the top right-hand corner. He raged on for several minutes about how he could believe anyone would take her seriously, etc. I then asked if he interviewed her and he said, "Of course I did!"

Margaret Morford
theHRedge
615-371-8200
[email]mmorford@mleesmith.com[/email]
[url]http://www.thehredge.net[/url]

Don D · November 2002

Did he also admit to you that he stumbled and stammered through most of the interview because everytime they had eye contact, those measurements kept flashing in the backs of his eyes?

Margaret Morford · November 2002

Absolutely not! My husband is honest, but not crazy!

Margaret Morford
theHRedge
615-371-8200
[email]mmorford@mleesmith.com[/email]
[url]http://www.thehredge.net[/url]

SandiF · November 2002

I recieved a resume from someone who drew their picture using a stick figure. The applicant had arrows pointing to different parts of her head describing her attributes. Each of the arrows apparently were meant to point to the part of the brain that carried a particular trait, i.e. hard worker, team player, good sense of humor, etc.

HS · November 2002

I just got a resume in (no picture) but I had to share the funny info on it...
and I quote verbatum...

"7/1979 - 5/1982 Playboy Resort Lake Geneva, WI
Yes I was
Coordinated celebrity arrivals and departures. "

Guess she gets a lot of questions to answer "yes I was"....maybe she should include a picture? Although it was 20+ years ago...

Renie · November 2002

Was "Yes I Was" the Job title??

ritaanz · November 2002

When you see Playboy Resort you would suspect that the job title would have been "Playboy Bunny". I guess she was trying to be cute.

Don D · November 2002

Maybe this was the same girl that Margaret's husband graciously granted an interview to after she listed her measurements on the resume. The sacrifices some of us make.

HS · November 2002

>Was "Yes I Was" the Job title??

It was in the same place as the job title...and like Rita said, most would probably assume that since she worked there, she was a "bunny"...so she just decided to answer the burning question...

Guess it's like the Melissa Etheridge album..."Yes I Am"

Renie · November 2002

I guess so! Sounds like a pretty interesting career! Did you hire this person? and give the the job title of "Maybe I was, 20 years ago"?

HS · November 2002

>Did you hire this person? and give the the job title of "Maybe I was, 20 years ago"?

No, I haven't even interviewed her. She didn't have all the right qualifications for the job I have open...however, I was debating on whether or not to bring her in to see what she had to say about her previous job.

I like the idea of her new job title...

WOCO Frank · November 2002

I wonder how many interview questions were answered with "Yes I will"...

>Was "Yes I Was" the Job title??
>
>Guess it's like the Melissa Etheridge album..."Yes I Am"

Dan Krawczyk · December 2002

Just joined this group. I received a resume once from a person named Combs. The individual attached a small comb to the resume. I was always thankful this person's name wasn't Fish.

Don D · January 2003

HA! Dan: That was a huge laugh! Thanks, Don

System · January 2003

Here's a link to a fun article about resume bloopers:

Ten Classic Resume Bloopers
[url]http://editorial.careers.msn.com/articles/resumebloopers/[/url]

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]

Eroj · February 2003

I received a coy of a guy with a front-end loader with his application and resume'. We're a construction company so it's not out-of-the-job-area, however, usually, they just list the equipment they can run, like,duh, we know what the equipment is.

Don D · February 2003

Eroj's post makes me think of this 'must share' photo. I recently posted this photo on our 'safety suggestions' board. It's a photo of a forklift loading a pallet of our product into a truck trailer in China. Actually the photo shows one forklift lifting another forklift lifting a pallet and the first forklift hoisting the second one up high enough to set it into the back of the trailer. This is definitely an innovative approach to having no dock ramp; although not one OSHA would look too kindly on.

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