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I get a *lot* of resumes across my desk, and it seems they get less useful every year. I have three questions I want answered instantly before I can start to think about somebody, they are 1. what have they been doing? 2. what education do they have? 3. what do they do in their spare time? These days, all resumes begin with 2 or more pages of fluff about how great their attitude is, and lengthy lists of computer technologies of which they are allegedly masters. You have to go way to the back to actually find out some objective facts about this person. And a lot of people say nothing about #3, which makes me suspect that they are dweebs who collapse in front of the TV every night, and thus unlikely to have anything useful by way of imagination. I can only assume the job counsellors are tuning the resumes to the behavior of the HR scanning software. The notion of "routing around HR" sounds like a good one. -Tim
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