RE: Boilerplate resume items for otherwise uninspiring jobs

["Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

Richard Combs wrote:

"If I were hiring retail clerks, I'd toss the resume that (was) trying to
snow (me) with ... pompous BS?" 

I'd schedule an interview for the one that said "Operated a cash
register, counted, and closed out the drawer at the end of the night."

Right on Richard. I once ran a large computer sales/service organization and
I can tell you from experience that if you pump up your resume with "pompous
BS" it would end up in the circular file. I didn't need pompous, I needed
people who could run cash registers, close a drawer at the end of their
shift, perform outstanding customer service, and new there way around a
computer system. If I got a resume filled with gobblygook, my opinion of the
person was someone who would inflate their resume with important sounding
words, but was probably incapable of doing the job.

Al Geist
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