Many people seem to neglect their resumes or think that they aren’t very important. Those people have never been recruiters before. Recruiters job is not to find reasons to say yes, but instead to find reasons to say no. Mistakes on a resume are an easy way for me to say no to a candidate. If you have misspellings, grammatical errors, unexplained holes in the years you worked, or a resume not targeted at the job you are applying for I will likely throw your application out and move on to the next candidate.
Santa Monica Pier
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
I really enjoyed this book over the holiday weekend.
Candide by Voltaire
Amazing parable reflecting on the plight of man. I highly recommend it.
The Fox is Dead
Poop Factory
Visited Scott on Sunday
Beer Causes Injuries
I read an interesting article in the New York Times when I woke up this morning that roughly 1 out of every 3 emergency room visits in the United States are alcohol related. The most interesting tidbit is that people who drink certain types of beer are much more likely to end up in the ER than others.… read more “Beer Causes Injuries”
Food of the day
What Would Cause American Civil War 2?
What could possibly cause a second American Civil War?
I think ACW2 (kind of an awkward acronym) would most likely be caused the US national debt. The national debt would start to push inflation rates higher and higher until dollars are virtually worthless. Texas would move onto either a gold backed currency or a virtual currency and secede from the United States, followed by all the angry Southern states that never got over ACW1.… read more “What Would Cause American Civil War 2?”

