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Becky
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Oh gosh.. i can finally understand the CV and application nightmare stories... We're getting new people in, and there are quite a few interesting ones.

0) pages of randomly placed info. PAGES. I'm lost in there!!

1) no basic info whatsoever. Like, no nationality(we're recruiting internationally), no birthdate, barely his name and email. I know that the first ones are not really needed for the job, but they're still customary.

2) entry level back and/or frontend job. This guy's a phd graduate, working research with big data in a bio-something department. We're a web startup.

3) there are some listing so much unrelevant stuff, I'm not even sure if they meant to apply to us.

4) (my favourite) email subject: application, email body: empty, attached: short_application.doc ("hi, this is an application to the posted job. Best regards, Name") WAIT WHAT?

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  • 8
    7y
    Fourth one is the best
  • 4
    7y
    I don't see the problem with #1, how does the nationality or/and birth date help in knowing whether the candidate can do the job?

    also, sometimes, people opt out of giving such data to avoid being discriminated against.
  • 1
    7y
    @uuid it's not a problem, but here it's customary to give that info. We've made sure to not decide based on nationality before, on quite a few occasions :)
  • 4
    7y
    Nationality, birth date and profile photo (and gender, for that matter) shouldn't have to be included in resumes. It's easy to subconsciously discriminate based on these things, even without meaning to. And of course harder to consciously discriminate, too.
  • 2
    7y
    @wizzzard I agree.
  • 1
    7y
    I feel you. I just got an application in two mails, subject "Cv" and both with a link to a PDF in Google Drive to different documents. He worked as a welder until now and wants to work with us as a web developer.
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