by adowling on March 16, 2010
I lost it. I’m posting an all points bulletin for my muse.
If you see it, please call me ASAP so I can reclaim it.
Ugh, maybe it’s the stress at work or the time change or the weather. I’ve had several posts started and scrapped them because I didn’t feel like they were up to my personal standards. If there’s any place I should feel a muse it’s where I am now, sitting outside under a tree in 66 degree weather on a sunny day. But alas, it evades me once again.
The posts I’ve started but scrapped have had good potential; I just haven’t been able to see them through to the end. I had one on the importance or lack there of, in a successful business; I also had one on what makes a good leader. And then I got frustrated last night and had one going on my Social Media Etiquette pet peeves.
So here’s the Readers Digest version of what I have knocking around in my head.
- Technology is important, but I think you need strong leadership, a passion for something, a set of goals for the business/department, and the ability to laugh at your own stupid mistakes to have a successful business. Just because you have the cream of the crop technology, in my personal opinion, does not mean your business will be successful.
- Social Media Etiquette pet peeves: If you request a connection, tell me who you are and how I know you. Don’t spam me. Spell check, use it. And last but most importantly, Auto DMs are evil, stop it.
by adowling on March 5, 2010
I don’t care who you are or what you’ve done in your career; the functional resume is a horrible idea.
My brother-in-law was recently laid off from his job, a few months before tying the note I might add, so being the good sister-in-law in HR, I offered to help. Bless his heart, he forwarded me his resume and I all I could do was sigh.
My friend Dawn Hrdlica wrote a post over on Fistful of Talent in January about the death of the Functional Resume.
The Functional Resume, known more affectionately as “the confusing one” and “the manipulator” died today after a long steady decline. The age of Functional Resume was unknown, since he refused to notate any of his works or accomplishments chronologically.
Functional Resume, born by professors and consultants, was a friend to job seekers convinced (by the same professors and consultants) that their experience was too limiting to be forthright. Functional Resume was an outspoken advocate of praying on the naivety of candidates; candidates taught by generations past, that diverse, non-traditional career paths were shameful and that wordsmithing, trickery and deception were better paths into recruiting gatekeepers.
Sadly, Functional Resume drew his last breath with the evolution of work-life balance, dual career paths, the emergence of Merger and acquisitions, and the economic crash of 2008-09. These events lead recruiters to simply not care if a resume showed a less than steady chronological workflow, since it was a sign of the times.
Functional Resume will be buried alongside of facsimile, typewriter, telegraph and dictaphone.
Every time I see one I cringe; even if it’s written well and covers all the bases. I don’t want to guess what skills and/or accomplishment go with what role.
And to anyone that’s telling job seekers to use the Function Resume, stop it.
