Picked up by ZeroHedge: I have been reviewing resumes and just keep face palming...

The problem on writting a resume is that you relly cant know what each boss wants to see.

If OP dont like my resume, it dont mean I did somehow wrong

20 year old neck beard wearing douchebags never hired anybody.

Entering into the busiest time of the year?

Federal contractor are you?

that's YOUR responsibility to train quality and consistency...the quality of your employees should come out of your pocket not theirs...its your business, pay for own bullshit and quit living off others while claiming success

A Resume has nothing whatsoever to do with whether a person would be an excellent candidate for a manufacturing position.

You are essentially requiring mastery of English to prove you can notice detail on a block of wood or whatever it is you do.

If you were as smart as you want your applicants to be, you'd judge them based on their motivation and ability to be trained to DO WHAT YOU NEED THEM TO DO and nothing more.

Many times an illiterate person will do a far greater job at manufacturing than someone with a PHD in English.

Seriously, I think you might just be trolling with a post this stupid.

I find the whole process fake and insincere.

Best resumè in the world would be written by a sociopath. Someone who manipulates people and tells you exactly what you want to hear to get what they want.

And then the people doing the hiring, looking down upon the applicants, deciding wether or not they should shower them with their blessings of putting stuff together at a bench for something just above minimum wage I'd assume.

Have you never heard of a temp agency? Let them deal with all that bullshit.

A Resume has nothing whatsoever to do with whether a person would be an excellent candidate for a manufacturing position.

You are essentially requiring mastery of English to prove you can notice detail on a block of wood or whatever it is you do.

If you were as smart as you want your applicants to be, you'd judge them based on their motivation and ability to be trained to DO WHAT YOU NEED THEM TO DO and nothing more.

Many times an illiterate person will do a far greater job at manufacturing than someone with a PHD in English.

Seriously, I think you might just be trolling with a post this stupid.

...and thank you also, AC, for making my point. Again.

A resume can tell alot to a seasoned Manager or HR person.
If you come across as an illiterate moron then chances are you are a complete dipshit who will waste time and piss off the serious professional workers. If a person cannot invest time into one of the most important documents of their life then chances are they are idiots.

You said it better than I.

I own a small manufacturing company. Most of the assembly work is done at a bench, with hand tools. The work is not difficult, but quality and consistency is paramount.

We are entering into our busiest time of year, and steady growth combined with losing one of our senior bench techs has caused me to run some ads (after spreading the word around to friends and associates).

I have been involved in the manufacturing business for about 30 years, and have seen thousands of resumes.

The last couple weeks I have been reviewing a couple dozen resumes a day. What I am seeing now, is stunning and disappointing. When did people stop learning how to compose a sentence? When did they decide that a resume composed of two sentences is somehow complete? The poor level of spelling, grammar, and frankly effort has me perplexed and perpetually face-palming.

So far, I have two resumes that were not immediately round-filed. Just two.

If this is the current state of our potential work force, we are in trouble.

I own a small manufacturing company. Most of the assembly work is done at a bench, with hand tools. The work is not difficult, but quality and consistency is paramount.

We are entering into our busiest time of year, and steady growth combined with losing one of our senior bench techs has caused me to run some ads (after spreading the word around to friends and associates).

I have been involved in the manufacturing business for about 30 years, and have seen thousands of resumes.

The last couple weeks I have been reviewing a couple dozen resumes a day. What I am seeing now, is stunning and disappointing. When did people stop learning how to compose a sentence? When did they decide that a resume composed of two sentences is somehow complete? The poor level of spelling, grammar, and frankly effort has me perplexed and perpetually face-palming.

So far, I have two resumes that were not immediately round-filed. Just two.

If this is the current state of our potential work force, we are in trouble.

Another idiotic post. If you cannot be bothered to submit a professional resume, you're going to be a lousy employee. Get it?

A shitty job in a factory paying minimum wage is not going to attract the Einsteins of this world.

I was a floor manager for an international crating company with over 10 people under me at any given time where every t had to be crossed and every i dotted.

I never submitted a resumé nor did any of my employees.

Alot of them where down right meat heads but they could work and drive the forklifts.

Fuck your resumés..

I own a small manufacturing company. Most of the assembly work is done at a bench, with hand tools. The work is not difficult, but quality and consistency is paramount.

We are entering into our busiest time of year, and steady growth combined with losing one of our senior bench techs has caused me to run some ads (after spreading the word around to friends and associates).

I have been involved in the manufacturing business for about 30 years, and have seen thousands of resumes.

The last couple weeks I have been reviewing a couple dozen resumes a day. What I am seeing now, is stunning and disappointing. When did people stop learning how to compose a sentence? When did they decide that a resume composed of two sentences is somehow complete? The poor level of spelling, grammar, and frankly effort has me perplexed and perpetually face-palming.

So far, I have two resumes that were not immediately round-filed. Just two.

If this is the current state of our potential work force, we are in trouble.

I own a small manufacturing company. Most of the assembly work is done at a bench, with hand tools. The work is not difficult, but quality and consistency is paramount.

We are entering into our busiest time of year, and steady growth combined with losing one of our senior bench techs has caused me to run some ads (after spreading the word around to friends and associates).

I have been involved in the manufacturing business for about 30 years, and have seen thousands of resumes.

The last couple weeks I have been reviewing a couple dozen resumes a day. What I am seeing now, is stunning and disappointing. When did people stop learning how to compose a sentence? When did they decide that a resume composed of two sentences is somehow complete? The poor level of spelling, grammar, and frankly effort has me perplexed and perpetually face-palming.

So far, I have two resumes that were not immediately round-filed. Just two.

If this is the current state of our potential work force, we are in trouble.

You think your little factory job is so special, dude blue collar jobs don't require resumes....fucking idiot

Do you have any examples? Names withheld, of course.

...and thank you also, AC, for making my point. Again.

I am not requiring mastery of English. Just basic spelling, sentences that make sense, and some sign that at least a little effort was taken.

The resume is the first point of contact with a potential employer. If I did NOT judge the candidate based on the resume, I would be spending all my time interviewing.

This is your problem right here OP. It seems you view the job as some kind of gift you bestow upon those you deem worthy. This is not a good thing. In business everything is a deal / arrangement. You have a template for what you want and employees have templates for what they want. A job is a deal where the employee is trading their time for the productivity you need. However, when you view the job as you seem to, you're not considering both sides of an arrangement. This is usually the perspective error that leaves you wanting someone to do the work you need with no reasonable compensation. You probably get only the crappy resumes because the compensation isn't in balance with the job description. Those "educated" people you desire so much see right through this and decide not to apply to your opening. I would look more at what you are expecting through the job description vs what you are offering to applicants.

Past that, I don't know what it is you assemble, but I know I can put together just about anything in this world, design highly complex networks, policies, processes and have rescued businesses in peril through such improvements, only to get screwed over. I have stopped applying to such positions where the balance outlined above is out of whack because it tells me (applicant) a few things. First is that it would be a miserable place to work at. If a given job requires a bunch of stuff that doesn't pertain to the actual tasks and has low pay windows then every person is probably miserable working there. It makes the company a drain on everyone. It also tells me that the "boss" or manager is very detached from understanding their employees' perspective. If these things are not due to such detachment, then it is a case of the boss simply being greedy, or a POS person that one shouldn't waste their time on.

Back to the deal and arrangement topic. The simple answer is that if you're not attracting the caliber of applicants you desire, then you need to improve the deal in order to attract those applicants. Having only your interests in mind ALWAYS shows through in the job description and drives away quality employees.

I would start by looking at what your competitors are offering in your market and measure those deals against your own. You have to look at the ones who are finding the employees they want and then use that analysis to improve the deal you offer. What you're facing isn't that no one is skilled. There are better offers out there and the target people you're looking for are going for those better offers.

I hope this info helps you find the employees you're looking for.

Blue collar jobs require resumes when the person offering the job requires a resume.

Blue collar jobs require resumes when the person offering the job requires a resume.

You talk a good game, but you really have no clue what you're talking about.

You think like an idealist. Almost everything you stated above has to do with inadequate compensation. So if you pay more, you get better workers. This is not true at all.

Also, you have clue how much OP pays, you're only guessing he does not pay enough.