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The whispering is all in her head and says she sucks

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 183 points 1 month ago (17 children)

I'm going to take a stab and say she's a recruiter for a third party staffing company.

They REQUIRE word docs so that they can copy and paste or edit your resume on their template.

Pro tip: take the requirements that they send you and Google search for it. Apply directly with the company and cut them out.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Unless you open the pdf in gimp or something (and it's not just a photo, which would be equally bad in a word document) you should be able to copy from a PDF too.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yeah, I don't know how to say this nicely, but my experience so far is that HR people are exactly the sharpest knives in the kitchen...

[–] GenosseFlosse 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Had Javascript on my resume, and the recruiter send me to an interview for a Java programming job...

The other one asked me to take an online test about cryptography algorithms in node js for a prescreening interview, which is something I never even remotely had to deal with in more than 20 years working for multiple e-commerce, health systems, CMS and other services and websites. Also, no Google or any online sources allowed to solve their questions...

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I think most recruiters are legitimately stupid.

Most of them certainly have no business recruiting for people in industries they've never worked in and can't really comprehend the requirements for.

[–] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

“Please do our work for us for free. Thank you for applying.”

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