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hiring managers what is the biggest red flag on a resume people keep saying gaps in work history but honestly guys make sure you inquire about it before just writing someone off i had a guy who had a year or two gap in his resume most people would just write this dude as well obviously there's something wrong with him well there was the dude was diagnosed with brain cancer and had to go through intensive treatment he lived but came out the other end jobless couldn't find work afterwards because of the gap i could tell he was a smart dude who just had a bad hand of cards he was hired and he's honestly worked out great and still works at that company this i used to hire truck drivers for a major company and they were insanely strict about work history they wanted to know the past 10 years worth and you couldn't have more than three years edit of unemployment unaccounted was poor wording unaccounted for i had to turn down stay-at-home parents people who were sick how even a guy who had won the lottery and just took a couple years off i always felt like such a dck turning them down but i didn't have a choice even if i proved it it would get shot down later on edit thanks for the award listing every single accomplishment from high school and or middle school when you've been out of high school for 10 plus years had a guy list every party got in a musical play sports he played with scores dart clubs he was a part of etc all of these dated from at least elementary school on the man was 50 plus the job had nothing to do with any of these items my senior year of college one of my classes had a small section about resumes where we had to peer review resumes the one i got had accomplishments from middle high school which was weird because this person had done several internships both for the major they were in and also during summer there was absolutely no reason they needed to pad their resume especially that far back i once had a guy submit a resume saying that he could not work with women or speak to any woman due to religious reasons i'm all for being tolerant of other people's beliefs but this was for a customer service job if you can't interact with women at all then maybe this wasn't the kind of job he should have been applying for i used to be a receptionist this guy must have come in for an interview while i was on lunch break and my male colleague filled in for me i got back in time to see his two would-be bosses approaching him for the interview on a woman the other a man he refused to shake the lady boss hand and would only speak to her through the guy it was also a customer client-facing position he did not get the job a watermark of their face on each page of a resume i know there are templates through word that let you use photos but i always found it weird to include a photo of myself on a resume i've seen someone put their certificate of baptism under certificates and awards edit row i didn't expect this comment to gather this sort of response maybe i should add that the job had absolutely nothing to do with religion which is why the baptism cert seemed so out of place my wife's late grandmother who was a devout christian was once distressed to learn that i'm not baptized she asked me what do you tell employers when they ask for your baptism certificate double quote it was the first time in my life i'd ever heard of a baptism certificate being considered when applying for a job and my wife had to explain to her that it's pretty much illegal to ask for one i once got to resume that listed under his award section champion and master of the chuggin tug at some dumb assassiu fraternity whose name i can't remember i'm still not 100 certain what the f ck that is but i know i didn't want it it's where you drink a lot of water and tug money out of people's hands to put it into a bucket to raise money for clean drinking water in africa not an employer but failed miserably to get a high school job i thought i was doing everything right i mentioned previous volunteer experience work ethic and always came dressed in a button-up shirt slacks and a tie for interviews or even asking about a job after a year of getting turned down by taco bell kfc and really any good high school job i found the issue under the previous criminal charges section i put assault and battery seventeen-year-old me had a loose grasp on the legal system and didn't realize that getting arrested for a fight is not the same as being charged with a felony i had been arrested on an assault misdemeanor but never charged unfortunately that revelation didn't come until i applied for military service and was told my felony charge was a permanent disqualification i was a manager at a trampoline park when i was 16 stroke 17 and did all the interviews since the majority of the applicants went to the same high school as me there was a guy that was in his late 30s who had hardly any job experience and a bachelor's degree iaike was literature related his age was kinda weird since most the staff were in high school college but having a degree completely caught me off guard asked him why he wanted to work minimum wage when he had a degree he explained that he was going to be a teacher but they wouldn't hire him because of his criminal history he proceeded to tell me he had sexually assaulted a child he was applying for a job at a kids trampoline park looked on the cameras before he left since he gave me a real i i bad feeling and saw him taking pictures of kids he left before i could confront him so i gave his resume and a hard drive with the entire recording of his visit to the local police department thought of another although it's an interview being a dck in an interview i work in a predominantly male trade i'm a service lead so i do know my trade i may be on the younger side but i've been working in this business for over 10 years my male boss asked me to start an interviewer guy before he got there as he's running late and the guy was going to be my employee anyways the guy comes and seems okay at first then it goes downhill quickly asks me for coffee from starbucks not office coffee he wanted me to go fetch him starbucks hell no so that's not bad enough so starts asking any interview questions like trick questions starts trying to tell me i'm so smart but in that tone he's being just generally a dick i'm done i tell him that the interview is over he says i'll wait for the boss to do my actual interview he wouldn't leave boss eventually comes in and throws him out we think he had to get interviews for unemployment or something but actually didn't want to work why else would you intentionally tank your prospects of king hard the guy who applied for a design job and attached a photoshopped image of him as a centaur comes to mind also typos i was hiring a very senior level person who seemed like they could do an amazing job but there were several typos on her resume i asked the recruiter to let her know lies i'm that hiring manager that'll dig into the weird [ __ ] you're interviewing for an enterprise software job but list unity 3d on there let's dig in you're interviewing for a react gig but for some reason list raspberry pi project to control cadre let's talk about that one you wrote a mini craft plugin ok let's figure that out i figure the weirder the thing on the resume is the higher the chance you were passionate about it if you aren't then you're probably not being truthful about much else this isn't the end all be all of course not everyone even has weird totally unrelated to the job stuff on their resume but if you do remember it's fair game doesn't stop me from hiring anyone but changes things up when someone says they speak another language if it's spanish you'll be interviewed in spanish sometimes that goes very poorly for the applicant i actually had that happen to me at a job interview for a tutoring company so luckily i actually do speak spanish it's certainly not as fluent as my english but i can communicate well enough the interview went fine but it was definitely a surprise so i'd expected a few questions about my experience with the language but i hadn't expected the interview to actually be in spanish i'd imagine this would be a pretty good way to find out who is blatantly lying on their resume but i would have appreciated a bit of advance notice haha i felt pretty unsure about the interview after it was over but i did end up getting the job there reason for leaving too much drama i never list that being the reason but that's the reason i quit my last job basically this one girl managed to trick the entire [ __ ] management into firing several of my friends because she didn't like them after i quit i heard she managed to get several others fired too she'd been working there a month and was constantly caught falling asleep asleep on the phone so yeah i didn't feel like stocking around we had an application where the applicant had a felony on their record they spent half a page in the middle of their resume explaining how the felony wasn't their fault and that we should hire them their felony was from stealing from another department from the last time they worked at the company they were applying to it's a big company so i think they were hoping we wouldn't care since we were in a different department i don't know how they made it through the hr pre-screen and how they weren't on the do not hire list buzzword salad listing every hot technology plus ridiculous stuff example experience in c java sql xml json csv postgresql sql server if your listing file formats and several flavors of sql it's a bit much i like descriptions of the work you did like created a java app that fetches xml files from an sftp and parses the data applies business logic requirements which i helped define with the accounting department and loads results into an aurora db that's the kind of line i would ask about and try to dig in and find out what you really know spelling mistakes jumping around to five different jobs in two years this used to be true about the job hoping but my company has been relaxing on this mostly because that's the nature of millennials and the new workforce more and more people are moving from job to job that is becoming a norm and no longer a red flag typically it just means the companies didn't provide much incentive to make them stay in today's work environment it's extremely understandable what's a red flag is when they are job hoping from high paying good benefit jobs to another i wasn't an actual manager my old firearms retail job but being that i was the senior sales associate my manager included my input in the hiring process which entailed a lot of resume reviews we had a guy in his late teens early 20s drop off a resume for an open gunsmith position he had no technical training no gunsmith training and had never even owned a gun before he had recently joined the national guard and his only experience with firearms was basic orientation and cleaning of the m16 in basic training his resume basically said just this in one run-on sentence his resume explained that he had no idea how to write a resume and had no training in gunsmithing but that he needed a job was interested in guns so please disregard all this and give him a job because he was serving his country is you are not planning to adapt your resume position don't put an objective goal line i personally don't like them anyways but seeing objective succeed in this position or something equally vague is not a good opening line do follow all the application instructions for example send it to the email requested use the file type requested include all info don't include your picture in north america your gpa or a goofy skill karaoke is a pastime it's an overdone joke and not a skill when i did hiring really short periods of employment like where you have been working steady but in one year you have had a bunch of jobs especially if some of them are under a month and there wasn't a move involved this is true if they can't explain it one of the best hires we made had a lot of short jobs on her resume but she kept getting jobs at startups that went under we called her references and they were all really sad not to be able to afford to keep working with her [Music] this guy was involved in three 500 suits filed against his companies he or one of his companies were plaintiffs in one 900 of them defendants in one 450 and bankruptcy third party or other in the other 150 but he is the real stinger he was named in at least 169 suits in federal court we knew this at the application process and did the most logical thing upon a lengthy review process we hired him he's still working here today and up for review soon bad grammar rambling anything longer than a page and a half is a flag in my book at larger companies like the one i work for most of these things are filtered by headhunters and recruiter types they will then send me 3-6 resumes that get past them and get to me from there i go over the experience portions of these resumes and i pick the ones that most closely relate to the position we are hiring for the thing you need to work on more than puffing yourself up or resume is your interview skills i don't know what it is but people have lost the art of conversation most people come in with rehearsed rehashed answers that seems to have come out of a magazine or something just be open honest and be yourself if you have made it to the live interview chances are your qualifications line up and what you are really being interviewed for is your demeanor ability to handle pressure and to tell you the truth if you are someone the rest of the crew will get along with never worked in the field they are supposed to manage hireable bachelor in i.t four years developer two years head developer one year dev supervisor not hireable phd in it worked on it projects wrote papers about it i'm the kind of manager who will go for someone with less experience if they have a good interview obviously you need to check some things off experience wise customer service data entry etc but i know most people can learn on the job one thing i despise and resume or cover letter is crowded wording and minimal gaps i don't need to see your work history from your mcdonald's days at 14. i need to see the last five if it's relevant to the job not a hiring manager but have made some hiring decisions i've turned down extremely qualified well spoken intelligent candidates over the sole fact that they change jobs too frequently i never realized how big of a deal it was until i was making the decisions myself i'd rather spend twice the time teaching a less experienced higher than having to rehire someone all over again in a few months the biggest red flag is job hopping six months here five months there etc with no real long-term employment anywhere like did they get fired a lot but just get bored and quit once my supervisor got a resume with tons of spelling errors she actually called the applicant and told her we might take you more seriously if you had better english skills even if you're a bad speller get somebody to proofread it at least more than two pages the whole one page thing is outdated but if you can't consolidate your work experience to fit on two pages you're doing it wrong i'm a vp at a company have a mba have worked for five companies in 10 different roles some of my experience was as a consultant where i worked with 25 different companies on unique projects my resume is one page and yours should be too a resume is a marketing document that is supposed to call out your most relevant and most impressive experience putting shitty on two or more pages just hides the important [ __ ] and drastically reduces the chance you get an interview hiring managers get stacks of resumes and aren't going to read a book on your work experience doubly so if you have a bunch of irrelevant listed i interviewed a girl whose reason for leaving her current employment was that no one liked her because she was too attractive i mean she was pretty hot but she also came across as a massive narcissist which is likely the real reason her colleagues didn't like her i wish i had a day off for every resume that lists the skill attention to detail edit to clarify i am specifically calling out those resumes that list this as a skill but they spell attention to detail wrong or capitalize it incorrectly it's done for sure but it's something most companies put in the job ad often you put a lot of those same terms in your resume to check the box sorting engine for bigger companies and to show you actually read the job as in the first place edit clarified info in parenthesis military service is listed but is less than four years and not a honorable discharge i will always ask about their time in the service if it is on their resume and request a dd 214 usually when they have less than four years service they got kicked out quit or went a wall it is also possible they were injured or had a special enlistment offer during a week recruitment season i have never met a soldier that got kicked out of basic training or dishonorable discharge that wasn't a total piece of [ __ ] [Music] someone who meets the following criteria is usually a red flag beet farmer bed and breakfast proprietor aspiring freelance bodyguard office building owner and former assistant to the regional manager also someone who says they can vanquish customer resistance through physically imposing alpha male trees and insatiable merciless jackhammer like techniques and experts in anything pre-industrial german i am a hard worker fast learner this shows zero effort to come up with more of your personal value to yourself if that's how you lift yourself you'll have a hard time lifting up the team the other being time gaps in employment without a decent reason short stays with employers under a year at a time you won't get a phone call solid keywords valuable efforts built maintained improved driven responsible for group ride in workself and definitely never under any circumstances ever one thing i've always wondered often ask a person looking for a job how the interview went and i'm always told how great it went then no callback our hiring managers just making the applicant feel good at the moment about how the interview went or the person i'm asking just reading the situation wrong either way very depressing once received a sum from someone who had paid for a list of email addresses for it managers development managers technical leaders and hopeless frauds like me the document in question was a printed to pdf powerpoint presentation full of word art awfulness and eye bleeding clip art professing the sender's undying love for a particular programming language every other page featured the name of said language and a huge font links to software projects they really liked it had nothing to do with and full contact passport and visa details alas their girlfriend called me on the day of the interview to indicate that the candidate had the [ __ ] and couldn't come in not a red flag but i generally don't follow up with a resume unless they are at least a 90 percent match for the job i also once declined to hire someone who was too type a she was the most qualified candidate in the whole batch but i could tell that managing her was going to be exhausting so i just couldn't do it also had a girl once hand in her resume every day for about two weeks because she really wanted to work for us her cv had bar charts with her strengths and weaknesses and under hobbies she put cats and that was it we were kind of put off by the fact that she would come in every day she was actually way overqualified for the job and said she wouldn't stop coming in until we interviewed her so we interviewed her to get her to stop coming in and she obviously came in every day to find out if she got the job pretty awkward [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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