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duckWit
6y

Just received a job résumé for a software engineer position. The very first skill listed:

MS Word.

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  • 6
    6y
    I bet (s)he Excels at it!
  • 1
    6y
    Red flag. 🎟
  • 2
    6y
    It could be that the documents created by former devs were so bad that they now require skills in Word.
  • 1
    6y
    could be an older resume of mine.

    Got to get past those resume robots somehow, or maybe this poor guy/gal has had to do mail merge as part of a previous role or used word for documentation.
  • 0
    6y
    @Massive-Dev Excel was the second skill listed. No joke. Several items down were finally things actually related to the position.
  • 3
    6y
    I don’t know about you guys but, IMO, the first skill listed on pretty much all of our resumes should be: Google

    :P
  • 2
    6y
    I had multiple people with that same thing apply for a dev position.. they didn't have any actual dev experience, but they could mail merge like crazy. Not sure how they got past HR
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