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Manufacturing Job Fair "Dress Professionally"???
On Jul 20, 5:56*pm, pyotr filipivich wrote:
I got this in the Email: Manufacturing Job Fair Come meet companies with job openings · * * *Bring your resume · * * *Dress professionally · * * *Prepare to interview Great, cool, groovy. *But what does it mean "dress professionally"? Dress like when I go to report for work? *As I do when I've had the job a while? Or dress like I'm going to talk to an HR drone who doesn't realize that manufacturing jobs aren't management, or service, or white collar - but blue collar? * That we don't manage production, but "make stuff"? fnord. I'll wear something clean, w/o holes, and probably not the BDUs I wear everywhere else but to job interviews. -- * pyotr filipivich. Since it's the HR people that will be the majority of the folks you'll be meeting, a suit and tie would NOT be excessive, even though you won't be working in one. At least a good pair of slacks, not jeans, a button-up shirt and real shoes, not flip-flops, althletic shoes or work boots. A lot of these events just collect resumes, they're not actual hiring events with interviewing, but there's no reason to offend the gatekeepers. Ask yourself, would you hire you, if you look in the mirror? Looking like a bum or '60s commune refugee will NOT impress. A sure way to get the resume inserted in the circular file. If you have skills in a number of areas, making up different resumes to emphasize them may get you some further interest, HR droids look for buzzwords and phrases even though they may not know what they mean. In some cases, they scan the pile into a computer and only pull the ones that have the desired words out. Stan |
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Manufacturing Job Fair "Dress Professionally"???
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actual hiring events with interviewing, but there's no reason to offend the gatekeepers. Ask yourself, would you hire you, if you look in the mirror? Looking like a bum or '60s commune refugee will NOT impress. A sure way to get the resume inserted in the circular file. .... We hire people for hand harvest of fruit. Even for this job, many rule themselves out the second they walk through the door. Just a shower, haircut, and change of clothes would have given them a chance. Karl |
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