Yeah, I feel as though some people just don't understand how much of your time can be wasted during the hiring process. It's really not unreasonable to pass over a résumé for including/excluding certain content, though I don't think the inclusion of an Objective section should be grounds for not considering someone for a position. I'll take that over someone sending me a screenshot of their résumé from their phone (usually with the phone UI visible and with the résumé partially cut off), sending me a résumé that's clearly intended for a different business or sending a résumé with a lot of typos on it. It's always irritating when someone sends a résumé as a Pages file, but I'll at least have the decency to email the person applying and ask him/her to re-send it in DOC, DOCX or PDF format, because it's just Apple's arrogance that allows people to so easily send a document in a format that Windows users won't be able to view without jumping through a bunch of hoops.
Yep, and this is exactly why throwing away any resumes with an objective can be an efficient filtering tool.
Pretty much. This is my stance.
Are CEO's of small companies (ones without an HR department where the CEO has to personally filter resumes) really swimming in hundreds and hundreds of resumes? I find that hard to believe. Anywhere I've ever been has either been big enough to have people paid to filter resumes, or has been fighting like hell to get applicants at all.
Exactly. Who fucking cares what the CEO thinks about a resume? Most CEOs don't even know how the inner workings of their own corporation works.
Correct. People downplaying this or calling the CEO an asshole aren't getting it. I've had to sift through hundreds of resumes at a time for the handful positions of hired for. It's just not possible to treat every one of those hundreds with total consideration, so the initial screening is often, did this person actually spend more than an hour putting together this resume? Did they condense it to a page of relevant experience instead of giving me three pages of nonsense?
Often those people getting paid to read CVs have other responsibilities that stack up and overtime that doesn't get paid. You're also putting way more weight into ones commitment to submitting a resume versus having to read it. Most people don't tailor their resume to a role and have a canned cover letter if a position requires it.
You're operating under the assumption that "hiring manager" is always a dedicated position, which isn't the case much of the time (and in my case). The amount of time that someone spends applying for jobs is less important than the amount of time someone puts into each individual résumé. I'm definitely more forgiving when looking at résumés for certain positions, but someone applying for a receptionist position that'll require clean communication and a strong attention to detail won't get very far with a résumé that contains some of the issues I mentioned above. Your résumé has to be tailored to each job you apply for, and it has to show a certain level of polish based on the position you want. Note that we don't even require résumés, as we make it very easy to apply through our Web site and simply give applicants an option to include a résumé if needed.
Yeah, this was my thought when I read this. What shit ass company does he run if he's the "CEO" and he's reading resumes? Does he moonlight as the fire chief and the dog catcher?
