Un-Resume

Posts with the ‘Un-Resume’ tag

My Un-Resume: Arrogance with Good Intentions

“You are one of my projects.  I want to help you and teach you some of the things I’ve learned the hard way.”  Mitchel took a drink of his beer, looked at me, nodded and thanked me. I had just transferred to a new geography. Mitchel and I were peers.  The only difference was I […]

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My Un-Resume: Avoiding Reference Checks

Brett was stealing from the company.  Primarily, he was stealing his salary because he rarely worked a full day.  However, I even found out after I fired him that he was also using his company credit card for personal household purchases! In the interview Brett was great.  He had a great resume and was a […]

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My Un-Resume: Hiring Mistakes

I have been thinking about writing an un-resume.  This would be the list of all the things I have done wrong.  It is a long and sometimes scary list.  I always tell people a resume should never be more than two pages long.  Unfortunately my un-resume would break that rule!

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