Perhaps I'm just getting old. But recently I started a search for a new marketing representative. In the back of my mind, I had a fantasy about a hard-working guy or girl who I could send out into the world to represent us.
I put an ad on craigslist and I was swamped with resumes.
First of all, let me say there were some good people. I'm sure I'm going to find a good employee amongst them. What bothers me is the absolute lack of "getting it" on the part of so many job seekers.
So here is a short list of things, I would advise them to consider:
• Don't just take any job. Make sure that this is what you really want to do. If you don't like it from the beginning you are going to be unhappy. You are going to quit. Or, worse, you are going to underperform and be fired.
• Don't just blindly send your resume. I can't tell you the number of word documents that were sent with no explanation or even a subject line on e-mail. If your training is in pediatric emergency medicine, kindly tell me why you think you would be good at sales. (Because the way it is, you have ipso facto told me that you don't care what I'm trying to accomplish, you just want any job.)
• Don't try to pretend that you're something you're not. Eventually you will be unhappy or we will be unhappy.
• Remember you are on Facebook/MySpace/trendy social media site of the year. Special note to the guy with all the tattoos, piercings, implants and other body modifications: while we understand your generation goes in for this sort of thing, I'm not going to hire you. But thank you for posting all the pictures on and MySpace, except for the one of your right butt cheek, it made my decision easy.
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