How many WF'ers have a Résumé/CV?

Do you have a Résumé/CV?

  • Have

    Votes: 42 48.3%

  • Don't Have

    Votes: 45 51.7%
  • Total voters
    87


My guess is 347.

I've got one. Burger King manager gave me job straight away after seeing 10 years experience from McDonald's and KFC (pewep please do not PM me, I don't have KFC vouchers anymore).
 
Unemployable. Not sure why I would need one, unless I just want to write some awesome bullshit for the hell of it.
 
Last time I needed one was when I was 21. One day you might need one along with an executive summary if your selling a company or requesting funding.
 
When I last worried about writing a CV/Resume, a mentor of mine told me "A CV is something you write to get other people to approve of you. Is that what you need?"

I decided it wasn't and got on with something profitable instead.

I can see you might need one for investment, but if that's the case, it will be different from a "job CV".
 
Of course I got one, it's neatly pinned to my fridge and says: "Kick yourself in the ass, fuckface! Be your own boss!"
 
If you ever need funding, VC, business loans, etc. you're going to need a resume. The same is true if you are ever considering working with someone that you aren't familiar with. By quickly checking over employment history you can decide, even by how they formatted and laid out their benefits to a past company by wording alone, if they are worth working with.

It's not like you need to be walking around with it on you in case someone asks. Toss that bitch in your public dropbox folder and text someone a link so they can open it on their smart phone. You never know when you'll bump into a situation where someone asks for it, or you wish you had it - so it's the least you can do. Hell, I've even asked a potential date for hers just to see if she was full of shit.
 
Rexibit said:
If you ever need funding, VC, business loans, etc. you're going to need a resume. The same is true if you are ever considering working with someone that you aren't familiar with. By quickly checking over employment history you can decide, even by how they formatted and laid out their benefits to a past company by wording alone, if they are worth working with.

It's not like you need to be walking around with it on you in case someone asks. Toss that bitch in your public dropbox folder and text someone a link so they can open it on their smart phone.
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It's one of the most stupid things in business IMO.

Virtually everyone lies/bigs up what they can do. All that a CV does is gives someone an excuse to blame something other than themselves when it comes to a business decision.

What you've said also just shows the difference between someone who wrote a CV himself, and someone who paid a guy $500 to do his for him.

"Well his CV looked good, how could I know he was gonna be shit?"

If I was giving someone a business loan, I could find out after 30 mins in a room with them if I was ever going to get that money back or not, by asking them to prepare something specific for me before the meeting (that they wouldn't already have prepared), and then fielding them appropriate questions and seeing their reaction to them.

If you're employing someone, ask them questions about what they'll be doing for you and how they'd tackle common tasks. If they're going to sell, put them in a sales scenario - give them a script to learn before the interview and get them to cold call someone with you in the room, recording the call. If they're going to program, give them a mini programming project to do before the interview.

If someone turns up ill-prepared, they've done your job for them - they're not gonna be any good. If someone has turned up with the programming project done, along with a ton of other bells and whistles they thought were cool, and can explain their way through everything they did and all their design decisions - you've struck gold. You then hire them on a 60 day trial contract and chuck them if somehow they were amazing prior to the hire, but lazy and didn't turn up on monday and friday or whatever.

The whole CV and interview process is one of the most flawed processes in business IMO. All a CV is useful for is filtering people when you've got too many applicants for something.
 
mituozo said:
It's one of the most stupid things in business IMO... All a CV is useful for is filtering people when you've got too many applicants for something.
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Exactly.

The point is though, it's a staple in bureaucracy, so why give someone you randomly bump into but decide you might want to work with a bad first impression? You never know if you'll ever get the chance to go off, type one up, then get back to them. It's an, otherwise, unnecessary hurdle to get past their gatekeepers by then.

Now, if you're the one asking for it, then it's still a good tool to use when matching against their online profiles and history. Most people are not smart enough to use a separate E-mail than the one on the resume (despite it being one of the first things covered in a basic resume lecture). So, you can hunt them down quite fast on no other information.

Even without all that, it's still a good idea to keep one checked and yearly updated. You may not need to edit it every year, but it's good to keep track of your accomplishments for past employers and yourself. You never know when you need to look at something to jot off your highlights, and having to sit there and think about even 5 years of work that has all been muddled together can be annoying. Just think about all the hassle you might go through during a years worth of getting taxes together, lol. It's all made easier just getting it out of the way a little at a time.
 
Rexibit said:
Exactly.

The point is though, it's a staple in bureaucracy, so why give someone you randomly bump into but decide you might want to work with a bad first impression? You never know if you'll ever get the chance to go off, type one up, then get back to them. It's an, otherwise, unnecessary hurdle to get past their gatekeepers by then.

Now, if you're the one asking for it, then it's still a good tool to use when matching against their online profiles and history. Most people are not smart enough to use a separate E-mail than the one on the resume (despite it being one of the first things covered in a basic resume lecture). So, you can hunt them down quite fast on no other information.

Even without all that, it's still a good idea to keep one checked and yearly updated. You may not need to edit it every year, but it's good to keep track of your accomplishments for past employers and yourself. You never know when you need to look at something to jot off your highlights, and having to sit there and think about even 5 years of work that has all been muddled together can be annoying. Just think about all the hassle you might go through during a years worth of getting taxes together, lol. It's all made easier just getting it out of the way a little at a time.
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Good idea to keep one around, but like you said, why give them a bad first impression? I'd rather spend my time perfecting a compelling "elevator speech" then the perfect resume. Being able to talk/sell in person will do you more good then any piece of paper.
 
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