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nice article. thanks for the tip:)

You HR people need to get a life! Sifting through resumes is exactly what you get paid to do! I could not agree more with goalie35 comments. HR is to busy playing "GOD" with peoples lives instead of learning how to be qualified & earn the title of HR manager. Half these HR people have no clue what to look for in a resume, it's evident in the interview process. Your right goalie35, 80% of the interviewers I get in front of have not prepared for the interview themselves. All these HR people are interested in is "how cheap can we get you for."
You get what you pay for! We have all fallen into the corporate trap......graduate from college---take any "cheap" salary to pay off the student loans.....accept these annual (4-6%) pay grade increases and criticisms for doing your job......Get criticized for the most trivial issues......and then get let go because you make to much money and the company needs to reorganize or merges with another company and the same business cycle continues.......you are replaced by a young & dumb candidate that makes half what you were making. This is reality HR!!!!!!!!!! Do your job & learn how to read a qualified resume's and quit your moaning......or you might see yourself in the unemployment line where you belong!!!!!!!

Advising to NOT apply for a job one is overqualified for may have been correct two years ago or even last year, but in this time of 10% unemployment, many of us are hoping for ANY job we are qualified to do. And that is the rub, employers fear hiring someone who is overqualified because they might not stick around.

it is so truth goalie35. Lately it looks like most of the HR people are so tired of basically "DOING THEIR JOB". I hope that Companies will start realizing it before they will have tones of "not right" people on the board due to the fact that HR is overwhelmed with their job. It can not become a standard because the real true that "good employee is an asset not the expense" will become just theorie. Also, the Companies tend to hire younger and younger employees with no expierience what so ever and those so called "young wolfes" get burned out so quickly because they face the reality of business and do not have the expierience how to handle it and "great Collage theorie" is not working in a lot of cases.

Are you serious, HR is swamped by resumes!!! Considering that is there job to go through resumes, I find this statement to be crazy. Oh poor me the little HR person with all these resumes to go through. I guess I will have to do my job today...

I also agree with goalie35 - not only are many HR departments staffed by people unqualified to properly evaluate resumes, they seem to focus on the most sparkling rendiditons of a the applicant's career. Trouble is, many of those seemingly impressive careers are embellished to the hilt.
Being a 40-something, I know that circumstances (like the area in which you live, who your parents are, which college you could afford, etc.) often dictate the companies for which you work. These "poor, overworked" HR staffers zoom right in on the resumes with the impressive big company experience - who cares how WELL you did on that job!
The other gripe I have with the candidate screening process is the absolute refusal of the vast majority of companies to even momentarily consider an applicant that isn't a drop-in. What ever happened to companies training staff on their products and corporate philosophy? Employees are become as disposable as cheap Chinese toys...there's zero willingness to actually invest in a fantastic candidate with similar but not identical experience. They seem to prefer to hire someone who's been bouncing from company to company in their industry - isn't that just taking on someone that has demonstrated a lack of performance, loyalty, or the ability to integrate into a corporate staff...?

I agree with goalie35. Too many HR Dept's are staffed by 25 year olds. They have no real experience in the true business world. That is one reason large corporations are in trouble.

Perception is reality. IT is HR's job to look through resumes.... I have seen HR in action and it is a real pain for them to do what they are trained and hired to do. They make mistakes in judgement that cost employers time and money every day. Do they get fired because the girl that was the "Best" candidate got preg. 3 months later? Did they get fired because the VP of sales they found after an exhaustive search quit to start his own biz after putting in enough time to get his perks? I am older and had several jobs not because I couldn't do them, but because the companies I worked for were sold, taken over or merged.. Guess who goes first. Older guy making more money than the younger guys... That is just a fact of life in this disposable biz world. I don't get an interview with any major companies because I don't shine on paper... Unless I lied no HR person even gives my resume a second look. That is why I have found other jobs through my own networking. Those folks know what I can do for their business. They have tried to sell against me or been replaced by my products. So I have no sympathy for HR people that are so SWAMPED BY ALL THOSE RESUMES...... It's your job folks!!! Do it right, learn from your mistakes, and remember what you were like when it comes to your turn in the un-employment line.