Can confirm that going through applications is one of the most painful things ever for a hiring manager. Here are tips so that you don’t get throw in in the No pile as soon as people open your application:
1) Please, please triple check that you’ve read the instructions and answered questions properly.
2) The font on your resume shouldn’t be small, it makes it easy to miss important information and also the person reading it is going to be MAD at you.
3)Cover letters, oh god, cover letters. They should not be a regurgitation of your resume. And don’t make them like five paragraphs long. The hiring person will go “HRGHGGHGGGH” and that doesn’t work in your favor.
4) To Whom It May Concern is just….no. Figure out who would most likely be doing the hiring. Do some digging. If ya can’t figure it out, address it to the org/brand.
5) Be mindful of cliches. Everyone is a self-starter when they’re trying to get hired.
6) Modify your resume if needed and only include RELEVANT experience. I promise you don’t want them going “That’s nice….but why apply to this?”
7) Look into company values and culture. Give answers that show you’ve done so. You don’t want to answer questions that show you have no clue of company history, values, or culture.
A gentle reminder that the “last lynchings” were between 1981-1991, so
it’s less than 40. The CRA act was passed 54 years ago. Not enough
people want to hear or remember that.
y’all should remember that lynching is the extralegal murder for an alleged offense without a legal trial. Of course these cases of people dying at the hands of police is a lynching.
OKAY so I saw this a few days ago and was like “whatever” but then I smashed my phone in a car door, had to clean up some dead baby bunnies in my yard, and have just generally NOT had a good week. I’m fucking spooked and I’m reblogging this twice to get the universe to stop.
I ignored this too and then i got kicked out of my house. Also reblogging twice.
