I’ve been reading over resumes the past couple of weeks (we’re bringing on a few people at the moment), and I’ve seen some incredibly poor resumes. In fact, it’s downright amazing that people can put down the wrong address for their school, or not spell their former boss’ name correctly. As a rule any skill you claim to have should also be spelled correctly. If you can’t spell ethernet or server, then we aren’t going to trust you to administer one. One person even spelled nmap incorrectly.

However, by far the most eye popping mouth dropping resume I’ve seen belonged to a student from New Mexico tech. It was a multi page resume that came in a black bound folder with a clear plastic cover. The cover page had his contact info on the bottom, and a big color picture of him on the top that covered about half the page. (I guess he wanted us to know what he looked like, but it also would have made more sense to use a picture where he wasn’t wearing an orange T-shirt). The second page had a cover letter talking about how he was once profiled in a local newspaper as a “teen who cared”, (This was for an IT job). He has a two page resume which included no real experience, a page of references, and a CD, which presumably has an electronic copy of all of this information on it. (No one has been daring enough to put it in their machine).

Then there was the resume I found today – it was a one line objective and the name of their school. That was it.

On a side note, if anyone happens to be reading this and has decent networking skills and the desire to become an IT auditor, feel free to apply. The description on the webpage sucks, but if you’re interested feel free to email me.