May 13, 2010
Job Applicants
Since we are the “Jewelry Expert” Blog, we typically write about jewelry — of course! But we are hiring for a new full-time sales associate and just can’t help sharing some of the amusing things that people include on their resumes and cover letters. Hope you get a kick out of them like we did. 
- “My objectives are to provide quality service to costumers and clients.” — They sound like fun people.
- “i worked for my father…who deals in precious and semi precious jems and minerals…” — Wonder what those look like.
- “Objective: To gain employment in the Food Service Industry for an upscale restaurant as a Professional Server or as part of the wait staff, tending bar and/or other front of the house positions or duties.” — We are not a restaurant!
- “Note this is mostley my restuarant expirience, which was mostly P/T…however I was employed by Fed Fed Ex ground for 5 years.”
- “Objective: To obtain an internship in the field of Anthropology to gain knowledge and experience.” – I know we deal with a lot of old people, does that make this an anthropological position?
- “i have some experience in customer service but would always b willing to train practice and learn as much as possible” – Really, is it that hard to put an “e” after the “b”? And how about using some periods — there were four sentences and not one used capitolization or punctuation.
- Education: School X – Twelve Credits, School Y – Seven Credits — Do people care how many credits you completed at each school? If so, seven doesn’t seem like very many…
- Two applicants are registered physical therapists, one is a veterinary technician, two have Master’s degrees in social work and one is a civil engineer — Why do you want this job?!?! I think they’re just applying anywhere they can!
- About 1/3 of the applicants didn’t send a cover letter (though we asked for one) and four out of 30 have sent no resume, just a few sentences about themselves.
Even though we are poking fun, we feel bad that this is the kind of information people are putting out there as the first impression of themselves. Surely they’re all using a computer that at least has spell check. If they aren’t, they should. We hope all our applicants find jobs, but unfortunately they won’t be with us. Good luck to them, and may their resume writing get better.
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