I got a phone call today that made me doubt human intelligence yet again. I applied for a casual job doing what I was doing for the past ten years and the friendly person on the other end of the phone line told that I don't have the right skill set.
"Oh, really? What skills were you after if you don't mind me asking?" I was seriously confused... The following explanation was basically a recitation of the skills I mentioned in my resume.
"Well, that is exactly what I was doing the past ten years", I replied with naive wonder. The friendly person answered: "It just doesn't read like that in your resume, I'm sorry. Thank you, good bye."
It's these kind of experiences that leave me dumbstruck with no conceivable way of grasping even the basic concepts of what just happened and provoke a feeling of lost in the modern times of GPS and turn-to-turn applications.
Anyway, Elli suggested to get a professional look at my resume. I think I rather need a translator that understands the Australian code enough to sieve through the valuable information and extract the bits and pieces that are readily understood, which, of course, can be the same person.
No matter what, I'm on the short end of the stick and yes it is annoying that people don't seem to even take their time to read a two page resume, which has already been shortened to fit the attention span of managers and HR personnel but there's just no way around biting the bullet and find out what they actually want to understand from reading the shortlist of my past professional life.
"Oh, really? What skills were you after if you don't mind me asking?" I was seriously confused... The following explanation was basically a recitation of the skills I mentioned in my resume.
"Well, that is exactly what I was doing the past ten years", I replied with naive wonder. The friendly person answered: "It just doesn't read like that in your resume, I'm sorry. Thank you, good bye."
It's these kind of experiences that leave me dumbstruck with no conceivable way of grasping even the basic concepts of what just happened and provoke a feeling of lost in the modern times of GPS and turn-to-turn applications.
Anyway, Elli suggested to get a professional look at my resume. I think I rather need a translator that understands the Australian code enough to sieve through the valuable information and extract the bits and pieces that are readily understood, which, of course, can be the same person.
No matter what, I'm on the short end of the stick and yes it is annoying that people don't seem to even take their time to read a two page resume, which has already been shortened to fit the attention span of managers and HR personnel but there's just no way around biting the bullet and find out what they actually want to understand from reading the shortlist of my past professional life.
