What Should Daniel Do?
I need your help.
My desk is trying to hire someone. We're offering more money than a junior person needs, potential to become a partner in the business down the road, and the opportunity to learn a lot. We don't yell all that much and everyone has good hygiene. Basically a great Wall Street job.
This week we've received about forty resumes. Based on my recruiting experience I get the fun job of reviewing them all and deciding who we're going to interview. While reading resumes this afternoon, I came across the following:
Candidate Name
Candidate address, more candidate phone numbers than I'll ever need, candidate email
Objective
To secure a position with a company in which I can significantly bestow my extensive knowledge of the financial industry as well as contribute to a company's growth.
I assume the resume continues on from there with work experience, education, and other stuff that the candidate would probably really like me to read. Unfortunately for the candidate I seriously have no idea what the rest of the page contains as once I stopped laughing I put the resume down in order to post this.
Here's where you come in.
Which of the following should I do?
1 - Share this comment and the chuckling which is sure to ensue with the other people on my desk
2 - Be afraid of anything this candidate may "significantly bestow"
3 - Stop being such a jerk and finish reading the resume
4- Trash the resume immediately as anyone who so thoroughly abuses English in a formal document is hopeless
5 - Chalk the objective statement up to bad high school resume writing advice and ignore it
6 - Immediately offer the candidate an interview due to a highly tuned sense of the ridiculous
I will wait until Tuesday of next week, then proceed based on the comments you provide.
My desk is trying to hire someone. We're offering more money than a junior person needs, potential to become a partner in the business down the road, and the opportunity to learn a lot. We don't yell all that much and everyone has good hygiene. Basically a great Wall Street job.
This week we've received about forty resumes. Based on my recruiting experience I get the fun job of reviewing them all and deciding who we're going to interview. While reading resumes this afternoon, I came across the following:
Candidate Name
Candidate address, more candidate phone numbers than I'll ever need, candidate email
Objective
To secure a position with a company in which I can significantly bestow my extensive knowledge of the financial industry as well as contribute to a company's growth.
I assume the resume continues on from there with work experience, education, and other stuff that the candidate would probably really like me to read. Unfortunately for the candidate I seriously have no idea what the rest of the page contains as once I stopped laughing I put the resume down in order to post this.
Here's where you come in.
Which of the following should I do?
1 - Share this comment and the chuckling which is sure to ensue with the other people on my desk
2 - Be afraid of anything this candidate may "significantly bestow"
3 - Stop being such a jerk and finish reading the resume
4- Trash the resume immediately as anyone who so thoroughly abuses English in a formal document is hopeless
5 - Chalk the objective statement up to bad high school resume writing advice and ignore it
6 - Immediately offer the candidate an interview due to a highly tuned sense of the ridiculous
I will wait until Tuesday of next week, then proceed based on the comments you provide.
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