Jobquest: Stupidest Entry Blank Found On Online Job Site Applications

[athelind]

Desired Title.

My "Desired Title" is "Lord Chief Justice, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Master of the Buckhounds, Lord High Auditor, Coroner, Archbishop of Titipu, Groom of the Back Stairs, and Lord High Everything Else", but I'll settle for "Lead Cartographer: Mars Terraforming Fleet".

I mean, what the frak? Who cares what they're called? Is someone looking for a "Hydrographic Technician" going to blow off my posted resume because I have "GIS Specilaist" listed?

One of these sites basically hijacked my resume submission to somewhere else, and then demanded that I fill in their extra blanks before I could change the (really obnoxiously obvious) password they sent me; I'm tempted to put some sarcastic title there just to blow off steam.

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(They also have a "delete resume" button, which I'm tempted to hit. Am I gonna get anything but spam from http://hotresumes.com?)

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Update: I hit it.

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Comments

[toob.livejournal.com]

I'd be content to be called Exalted Dragon God.

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

"Is someone looking for a "Hydrographic Technician" going to blow off my posted resume because I have "GIS Specilaist" listed?"


Yes. Totally sucks, but yes. Is an idiocy, but yes. Ah well.

Having similar academic deficiencies to yourself, I'm thinking of starting my own organization to develop projects, gather funding and do stuff. That's what it's come down to for me. Otherwise I'm doing seasonal field work for the rest of my life.

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

I should say "perceived" academic deficiencies.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Bob, that's top of my Lottery List.

When I win the lottery, you're totally funded.

Yes, I play the lottery on occasion. Yes, I know the odds; I'm not innumerate. Some days, though, a winning lottery ticket doesn't seem much less likely than a response to a barrage of resumes.

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

The lottery is something I've never thought to play much. I really only think of it when the pot gets big enough to get on the news - and then the odds go way down.

But I'm not in California any more. Hmm.

BTW, I won't be at Furcon this year, fyi.

[thoughtsdriftby.livejournal.com]

Just remember not to check the lottery ticket for a couple of weeks.
You get more time with the possibility that you might have won.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

I'd settle for just "Overlord" myself.

[bfdragon.livejournal.com]

I've been going with Executive Overlord.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Nice. }:>

[unclekage.livejournal.com]

http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/Dixon-JobPrivacyRpt.htm

http://www.acsdallas.com/resources/oneline_resume_posting.pdf

[silussa.livejournal.com]

If you spell it "specilaist", it might not help.

And you'd be surprised where titles go sometimes. I have a coworker across the aisle in Subway who is perfectly happy being "shift lead". No money attached to the "title".

Oh, and two words: keyword search.

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Heh, go for it. Sometimes sites like that ask for the stupidest things when you're filling out forms. I agree, who the hell cares what your title is? You obviously want the job for things other than a title. ^^()