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

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.

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

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.

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 OP you might have this all wrong.

Do you really want people with great potential working bench assembly jobs. Think about it...

If their resumes are outstanding, they will probably quit as soon as someone offers them $1 more an hour.

You are probably unemployed waiting for that $250k a year starting job, because you are worth every penny. All your participation trophies make you feel special.

OP - I commend you on your thread. And your ability to provide employment to citizens - which is more than probably 95% of those on GLP.
This thread and the responses it has generated shows a dividing line between those who are "pre-internet" as someone said, and those after.

If a person doesn't understand the importance of constructing a proper resume - which should be easy enough to do in this modern age - where you have spell-check and can take as much time as you need to ensure your sentence structure and grammar is at least acceptable - then they typically are not worth the bother to hire.

Laziness and sloth are the trends of the masses today.
Which is why Universal Income is so attractive to the unwashed masses.

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.

LOL at all the people declaring that blue collar jobs don't need a resume.
AND also LOLing at people that think resumes are for old people.

What the heck do you think Linkedin is. It's a social media platform to make contacts and distribute your RESUME.

Clearly some people on here have never looked for a job outside of fast food, even some fast food places require resumes.

Everyone in my family keeps an updated resume just in case a job opportunity presents itself.

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.

A Resume has nothing whatsoever to do with whether a person would be an excellent candidate for any job

And OP you might have this all wrong.

Do you really want people with great potential working bench assembly jobs. Think about it...

If their resumes are outstanding, they will probably quit as soon as someone offers them $1 more an hour.

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.

and someone slick who writes/ or has someone write a great resume may also be terrible employee.

OP - I commend you on your thread. And your ability to provide employment to citizens - which is more than probably 95% of those on GLP.
This thread and the responses it has generated shows a dividing line between those who are "pre-internet" as someone said, and those after.

If a person doesn't understand the importance of constructing a proper resume - which should be easy enough to do in this modern age - where you have spell-check and can take as much time as you need to ensure your sentence structure and grammar is at least acceptable - then they typically are not worth the bother to hire.

Laziness and sloth are the trends of the masses today.
Which is why Universal Income is so attractive to the unwashed masses.

Why not hire someone who can spell and then train THEM? Not enough employers willing to train properly. Most just take from other companies in their industry. Lots of good people out there willing to do the job if you train them.

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

And above us here we have another example of someone who will
Never own their own business obviously

If a person doesn't understand the unimportance of a resume then you're fucking retarded

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.

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

We are willing to train. We have to be. It takes at least a couple months before a new hire is really starting to do well. This is not assembly line work. Each person builds finished machines, from start to finish.

Also, the pay can be pretty good for someone who is reliable and does quality work. $20 an hour is not where people start, but it is not unusual.