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is this you?

Who. The. HELL. sends me a resume in Powerpoint?

Not a presentation about why I should hire them- which would still be a turnoff- but an actual resume, formatted normally, except in PPT format, complete with cheesy slide templates.

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5 Responses to “is this you?”

  1. Jim Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 12:11 pm

    Yeah, for some reason people think Office is the way to do everything, but they only learn one tool and that’s all they ever use.

    Have you ever worked somewhere where Excel becomes the standard document format for everything? Two jobs ago, I was in an engineering department where I got yelled at for using a CAD tool for my schematic instead of doing it in Excel like everyone else. The guy who did the yelling was unimpressed when I then exported the netlist and sent it over to a little fab shop to have a machine build it… his argument was that the real way to do it was to have someone assemble the thing by hand, looking at the fine spreadsheet schematic, at twenty times the cost. And then find the spot where they screwed up.

  2. Matt Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    Oh I can beat that! I’ve received not one, but TWO resumes in the past month in low-resolution GIFs. And I say low resolution because I couldn’t actually read the resume when zoomed in (or when viewed from a distance).

    (As an aside, I did appreciate the attachment size - I mean, that would load on my Blackberry in no time flat!)

  3. Justin Says:
    August 22nd, 2006 at 10:10 am

    I can’t say that I’ve ever received Powerpoint resumes, but I feel Matt because I constantly get image files for resumes. And I run into the same problems. Either the resolution is too low and I can’t read them, or they’re too high and I get huge files sent to me.

    Why can’t people realize that a plain text file would be far superior than an image file?

  4. Damon Billian Says:
    August 22nd, 2006 at 8:09 pm

    Hi Tiffany,

    We once hired someone because of a presentation similar to PowerPoint at PayPal. It was, however, a great presentation w/animations and additional ideas about improving the service.

    But I think sending a resume via PowerPoint is a little odd:)

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