OT: Resumes are useless....(applying for jobs in general)

[gravfed]

Here is a tip, if you have a facebook or myspace account (etc), you better clean them up. Whenever I interview a candidate, I do a google search and find EVERYTHING I can. One wrong thing on one of those peer sites could cost you a good job.

Yeah, I know when I applied to grad school, several of my interviewers had mentioned they checked my myspace page, and later about my band.

I know the company I work for now checks myspace/facebook.


A big +1 to job fairs, I got an internship and a couple of job offers from a local job fair. Its a great networking opportunity, and there are often seminars at job fairs which give info on how to make your resume "jump" off the page--keywords, etc.

 

[D-Rock]

No walk-ins, jobs posted online say apply online, or in person. As an employer, I want to see how you put together a resume. Applying in person shows you want that job rather than just clicking away in your underwear to various employers.
Cover letters are required for many high profile, high responsibility, high paying jobs. People would be surprised at how many resumes get thrown away based and their presentation rather than their content. Remember, just because you don't care about them, doesn't mean that other people, who do hiring for other lines of work, don't.
Also, if they want to contact you, your email and phone number should be on any respectable resume.

If you show up without an appointment, you're a walk-in. It's that simple. The majority of upper tier jobs will never, and I mean never...ask you to apply in person. If we're talking about manual labor, retail, and other blue collar work, then it's a different ball game. For most white collar jobs, that's not the case.

People may say cover letters are required, but they're simply not read. I'm not basing my opinion on just me. I'm basing my opinion on 10 years on hiring and consulting for Fortune 500 companies and just about every branch of the government you can name, which includes networking with recruiters from just about every walk of life.

As for contact info...if you have to tell someone to put contact info on their resume, they don't deserve a job.

I disagree. But there isn't just one way of doing things either.

 

[NewWorldMan]

I disagree. But there isn't just one way of doing things either.

Disagree all you want, I'm just speaking from experience and living it every day. Think what you will and behave how you want.

Here's another tip. Recruiters and consultants network constantly. Don't be surprised if you no-show an interview, blow off someone, or piss off someone at one place and find it difficult to get an interview at another. I know a guy that was a no-show for an interview with a buddy of mine, never followed up or gave an explanation. So, he got blacklisted as a "flake," and there's at least 3 jobs he was denied interviews for locally that I know of because of it, possibly more that I don't.