[ale] My resume

[Jeff Lightner]

This all reminds me of the old advice to put your paper resume on slightly outsize paper so that it stands when they shuffle a stack on the theory it might make them pull it from the stack to look at it first.

An instructor pointed out rightly IMHO that the person shuffling the stack might just as easily go "Hmmm this doesn't fit." And toss in the trash so they'll have a neat stack.

While making it easier to prevent tampering with your resume sounds like a good idea it might not turn out to be such a good one if potential employers have to jump through hoops to read it.   This is especially so given that most resumes don't go directly to the hiring manager but rather through recruiters, human resources and possibly the manager's boss(es) before it gets to him (if it ever does).

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 1:31 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] My resume

If you _REALLY_ want to be able to have someone verify that your
resume did in fact come from you unchanged...
http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/57554

Requires OpenOffice.org and some config time and a signed cert.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was joking.  Aside from the impracticality of putting the md5 of the
> file in the file, there would be nothing stopping the recruiter from
> taking it out.
>
> -Johnny
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>>>> Most headhunters will put their own spin on your resume before sending it to an employer by the way.  You need to make sure you find out what modifications they are doing before they send it as sometimes they get it wrong.
>>>
>>> That's why I stick the md5sum of my resume at the bottom of the page,
>>> so that the employers can easily verify that it hasn't been altered.
>>
>> How exactly do you do that?  If you take the md5sum of the doc, then add
>> it to the doc, you've changed the doc.  Or do you mean as a separate
>> doc?  Then they don't have to send that page.
>>
>> Inquiring minds want to know.
>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
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