That’s fair but you are simply forced to create filtering mechanisms when faced with 300 applications for a job and you don’t have an entire HR department. 
Can you elaborate?
Fair. I work at one of Canada’s largest companies so I have a lot of resources. We also employ a lot of great people from Asia so I’m pretty forgiving of some English language “foot faults” from job applicants.
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Lol. What kinds of questions are most effective?
Ask what the teams priorities are for the year and how the goals for the role contribute to those priorities.
Ask them to define what it takes to be successful in the role. What skills are needed? How is success measured?
Ask what they think makes them better than their competitors.
Note these are all open ended questions.
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Well if my blood wasn’t already boiling from poker on Sunday this article would have done it:
Every day you learn some new shitty detail which just makes you ashamed of being European/White or whatever. People really lost their minds everywhere. Is there even any decent country left?
Butting in here. What constitutes an accomplishment? Like if I was Anthony Bourdain’s night porter, does “Took out the garbage every night.” count? Or does it have to be like “I noticed that our garbage bags tear and leak a lot so I got the chef to order ForceFlux++ bags, which solved the problem.”? Or is that still too insignificant to mention? I’m probably not quite getting at the essential problem, but taking out the garbage doesn’t seem to offer great opportunities for accomplishment and it seems weird to pretend that it does.
Eh, not knowing what an accomplishment is is probably a big red flag so I’m probably never getting another job.
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Some context, fwiw.
Tom Hanks seems like a legit good guy, but the children of the rich and powerful have been doling out karmic returns for like 5000 years.
What you gonna do with all that money you fought so hard to acquire? Give it to little timmy the spoiled moron. gjge.
(There’s actually a deplorable charity firm, donor’s trust, that promises to lock up the money of rich deplorables and apply it to deplorable causes so it doesn’t end up with woke kin or resulting in the ford/annenberg/carnegie foundations run by “socialists”. Seems like the griftist grift around outside of prechecked donor boxes.)
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I see your point. My problem is more psychological maybe in that I find it hard to declare myself King of Garbage. I’m humble.
If I had a place to go I’d be gone already. I do not apply. I procrastinate. Thanks for the posts, but I’m just chatting here. Sorry if it’s annoying. Don’t take it too seriously.
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In regards to resumes and accomplishments, I’ll share my recruiter advice on this.
The typical resume lists your previous job(title, dates, company), and then below it are bullet points. Those bullet points fall into three types of categories: duties, skills, and accomplishments.
Duties and skills are similar to the bullet points you’d see on a job description. We want somebody who knows how to do X to handle Y duties. Often times people go overboard on their resumes with duty-type bullet points. It makes sense in a way, like you’re reverse engineering what is on the job description. Some of it is helpful to know especially as it relates to things like how many people were you managing or how big of a budget you were responsible for.
An accomplishment bullet point is different than a duty or skill set bullet point, because it is bragging about what you did when you performed that duty with your skill set, and ideally can be related to a KPI that directly correlates to increasing profit, productivity, or anything else that has a bottom line effect. The accomplishment bullet point is the resume equivalent of click bait. It’s the hook that makes the reader of the resume want to speak with you.
I do a lot of work recruiting manufacturing operations leadership roles, so this example is specific to that, but can be modified and used in other industries.
Skill set bullet point:
- Six Sigma Black Belt
Duty bullet point:
- Collected data for manufacturing process improvement and LEAN implementation
Accomplishment bullet point:
- Slashed labor costs by $200k YOY, by implementing visual factory methods that reduced CNC machine down time by 26%.
A resume without accomplishments is like a pop song without a hook.
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We’re all pretty glad you’re here, Spaceman.
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This is good and I’ve bookmarked it for future reference.
However, as a low-level schmuck, I’m unlikely to be able to justifiably estimate labor or other savings. I suppose that as a night porter I could say something like “The new garbage bags I suggested noticeably reduced sightings of cockroaches, mice, and rats and we were simultaneously able to cut back on pest control measures while not incurring any health code citations for 3 months.”
Please don’t tell me Six Sigma Black Belt is a real thing. You only need 5 sigmas to claim a particle physics discovery that wins you the Nobel Prize.
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want to feel old?
the last recorded mention of Tila Tequila was over 60 years ago
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Used models of my graphics card are currently selling at auction for double what I paid new 18 months ago.
Whats going on with graphic cards? I noticed there was a massive shortage and the price has skyrocketed.