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Originally Posted by Due
How can you say skills have little to do with what makes a good or bad employee.
The most dedicated and hardworking employee can be a cost for you, your company and your employees if they do not have the skills to understand their tasks tasks.
But they could still have a nice, well written, well formatted resume.
A good recruiter should assist the applicant in making the resume accurate and easy to read, it save someone like me that would be their potential customer a lot of time and makes it easier to review.
FYI I'm talking about special skills job (programmers, designers, techs etc)
If I was hiring for sales or other "communication" positions I'd definitely look more at the positioning of the resume
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you sound a bit naive about hiring people. the "skills" have very little to do with a person being a
good employee. you are hiring a person, not a math equation. you are hiring a personality and all that goes with it. you are hiring a work ethic. you are hiring someones ability to get along well with others, to collaborate and hopefully to lead others. you are hiring someone to be ambitious and aggressive, to be a self starter and to work hard without having to be constantly reminded or pushed to be kept on track.
frankly, in my 39 years and 11+ years online and in this biz, i've learned that hiring people from inside the industry (unless its a sales rep with contacts) is a horrible, horrible mistake. this industry attracts dysfunctional people and those who are in this industry and unemployed are already 90% certain to be unemployable to begin with. they tend to be nomadic because they have to be. anyone can argue that the average php coder or adult designer has "skills"... but responsible? motivated? organized? ethical? meets deadlines? communicates well? not a drug addict or suffering from major personality disorders? almost never. their shitty resume' just answered a loud "yes" to most or all of those questions.
we've got a new new generation in the US coming up that seems to believe its entitled to everything. its sad and pathetic. when i was growing up... when you wanted a job... your first task was to show how serious you were about it by cutting your hair, buying new clothes, dressing well, being early, saying yes sir and no sir, covering up tattoos and having a professional resume. ... you didn't just show up dressed like an idiot, talking like a LA gangster, then slouch in a chair and with a smart ass smirk on your face, let it be known that you wanted a job as if that all makes perfect sense and says nothing about that person and who they are.
if i knew i was looking to hire someone that i had hoped was a mature adult and discovered they felt a 10 point list of resume tips on a porn forum was exactly enough to create a great resume, i wouldn't never discuss hiring them... much less read the resume.
what can i say? you learn this stuff from experience.