SKILLS | Ahmad Humeid writes about the thankless task of reviewing the résumés of Jordan’s job applicants
My duties at the office include reviewing the applications of people looking for jobs at our company. Many of these applications come from young computer science and information technology graduates. Almost all these applicants send us their CV’s using our website. A little side note here: had we been contacted by as many clients through our website as we had been by job applicants, our company would now be at least as rich as Microsoft!
I’ve been reviewing such CV’s since the days of the fax. So I feel that I am a sort-of expert on the subject of IT graduate CV’s.
The other day I got an email from an “IT graduate looking for JOP”, yes you read it right: ‘JOP’ with a ‘P’. If you’re smiling, well, I used to smile at such misspellings. Now I don’t find them funny anymore. There are simply too many ‘jop seekers’ out there who don’t use spill chikars.
Many IT graduate’s covering letters for their CV consist of three words. Something like “Here my CV”. Then there’s a Word attachment, formatted using one of the pre-designed resume templates. To be fair, the girls usually write better, more polite covering letters than the guys. Oh well.
While the ‘jop seekers’ can’t get the subject of the email spelled correctly, sometimes their covering letters are written in impeccable English, asking the ‘Madams and Sirs’ at our ‘Esteemed Company’ to ‘Kindly Consider’ their application. How come? At first I was puzzled, then it dawned upon me. It’s a cut and paste job. There are probably a million web sites out there with sample job application covering letters.
What gives the poor applicants away, is that the CV itself will be full of grammatical and spelling atrocities. Like the guy who once claimed in his résumé that he is “flaunt in English and flaunt in Arabic’.
Most of the time, the CVs themselves are a cut and paste affair too, especially when it comes to mentioning technical skills: you know, the “ASP-PL-SQL-ORACLE-VISUAL BASIC” thing. Rarely do I get a thoughtful description of a graduation project or a nice description of specific interests in certain technologies.
The level of sloppiness in most IT CV’s in unbelievable. It is obvious that these kids get no training or advice in how to write a CV or present themselves. I can confidently say that out of every 100 CV’s I get, only one or two are properly addressed, written and formatted. Often applicants refer to an ‘open position’ or ‘your ad the newspaper’ at a time when our company has neither an opening nor an ad.
Someone at our universities needs to tell the graduates that they can’t expect to be taken seriously when it’s obvious that they’re just mass mailing sloppy CVs to fifty companies at the same time by putting the email addresses of every company in town in the ‘to’ field of their email messages.
Some of these bad CV’s might be hiding a good junior programmer or system administrator. But with such bad communication skills, the companies seeking to employ good people might never get to know the person seeking the ‘jop’.
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RESUME
A.KARTHIKEYAN
===============================================
11/80, Kambar Street,
Vellalur Edaiyarpalayam
Coimbatore – 641 111
E-mail :
Mobile no:+91 90 43 90 70 62
PERSONAL MISSION
Seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilities in the field Collection and to control the percentage of delinquency.
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION:
Degree/Examination Institution/University Year Percentage
S.S.L.C GOVT HIGH SCHOOL EDIDARAI 2003-2004 78%
H.S.C Swanthanra
Hr.sec.school ATHIPALAYAM VAIYAMPALAYAM
2005-2006 73%
B.COM CBM College of Arts and Science
Bharathiyar University
2006-2009 64%
COMPUTER LITERACY
Operating System : TALLY 9.1, Ms.Office. E.Mail & Internet,
Type Writing : Lower First Class
WORKING EXPERIENCE
COMPANY : SUNMAX MANAGEMENT SERVICE (P) LTD
PERIOD : 26.08.20009 TO 02.09.2009
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name : A.Karthikeyan
MORTHER
Date of Birth : 21.06.1988,
Nationality : Indian,
Religion : Hindu
Languages Known : Tamil, English
Marital Status : Un-Married
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that all the information furnished above is true to my knowledge.
Place : Coimbatore
Date
Yours Truly,
(A.KARTHIKEYAN)
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