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Pssssst...gonna share a little secret with you. Just about everybody in DC produces resumes with fictitious awards, internships, scholarly papers, professional society memberships and even phony college degrees. It's all about getting ahead in a cut-throat job market.
But we'll keep this quiet between you and me. Shhhhhhhhh!
It doesnt take much to find out if they are lying.
"Oh I see you were at Georgetown for your masters last year. Cool. What did you think of the new mock equities trading facility they built on the 4th floor? I hear its quite spectacular."
"Oh yea, fantastic. Really top of the line..... "
vs
"I think you might be thinking of another program, I don't think Georgetown has that...."
Besides, I'm not hiring anyone based on awards, internships or scholarly papers and professional society memberships . I prefer to give cases.... it really tells you a lot about someone's ability to think through a problem.
They may just be sending you their Curriculum Vitae, thinking it's appropriate for the job since CVs are pretty standard overseas and in big DC industries like academia and research.
Yeah, this is the only thing I can think of. For academia a CV is pretty common and those things are usually really long b/c they list every publication, achievement, etc.
For an actual resume I think the rule of 1 page for entry level/new graduate/anything not highly specialized and two pages for a professional who has significant experience.
I've no problem with 3-5 page resumes for mid-senior level folks who've had multiple positions. When it gets to the true discussion stage, it's vital to get beyond job titles which mean so many different things at different places and into the substantive projects they worked on and real responsibilities they've had.
Now, when folks start listing bogus awards and various kinds of meaningless certifications for some one-weekend workshop they took, that's when we start looking elsewhere.
You guys are all missing the elephant in the room.
DC is a govt town. Those are resumes for govt positions, which NEED to be at least 3-5 pages to get through the qualification process. People are lazy and can't be bothered with writing two resumes, so they re-use an inappropriate one.
Not to be off topic but after 5 years should I still be including pre-college jobs? I'm thinking yes since most of the jobs aren't relevant to what I do now but no because I was a commuter working full time and supported myself through college. I thought about putting just the full time jobs but then there would be a HUGE gap on my resume from when I was underemployed (20-30 hours) but still going to school full time.
My resume is currently 2 pages I will never go beyond that.
Taleo and similar online job applications allow for uploading the resume and then auto filling work experience and education. When a resume is formatted correctly in Word, this is the cleanest way to complete the online application. Most companies use some tool like Taleo, where the candidate isn't just emailing a resume to a recruiter who probably has 0 years experience in the hiring field and who wants to spend 5 minutes scanning a one page resume.
Maybe people with more than one or two page resumes aren't idiots. Maybe recruiters are idiots if they don't want to take their time on recruiting the right applicants. Or maybe the company should invest in software for online applications and fire stuck up and evil HR recruiters.
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