We got the resume packages from co-op this afternoon. There were a whack of them. The first thing my boss did was thin them out for me (I guess I was the second round people had to get through) and then he was going to narrow it down to about 12. Gareth made 2 piles a "yes" and a "no". You were put in a pile based on your cover sheet. If it was empty or had more "Goods" and "Very Goods" than "Excellents" and "Outstandings" it was a no (There was a case of a cover sheet with 2 "Excellents" and 1 "Very Good" that was tossed in the air, heads it's a yes, tails it's a no).
But Gareth (probably like everyone) had weird things that got you to round 2... Like fancy, coloured paper (how ridiculous is that!).
Then I went into the boardroom with the stack of resumes for round 2. Jenn looked at the ones for test and I looked at the ones for dev. About half of them were awful. They were misspelled or had no whitespace or were just ugly. There were some that were printed out with a printer that was low on ink. And they would have funny things like uC++ (you guys see why that's funny...). One girl was turned away because she "Programmed in html".
The packages that stood out had good, personalized cover letters. Gareth would search out the ones with cover letters because they were more fun. And anyone with a half decent resume to back it up got through the second round.
Also, the 'Interests' section at the very bottum that everyone says is crap probably got some people through. When I was undecided that's where I would look. Anyone at that point with 'break-dancing club' I knew would fit in at the company (DDR, remember).
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