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We`re currently interviewing for salespeople at Virtual IT. What a joy. So many people think they can sell, and perhaps they can. But selling yourself if the first step. Here`s the exact text of an exchange I had with one candidate. Needless to say, they didn`t get the interview.

My first mail to her:

Good afternoon. Thank you for submitting a resume to Virtual IT. We are going through the submissions this week.
Your resume indicates that you are in Vancouver, but I see a 647 area code phone number. Please reply with your current location.

Thanks

Robert Hof
Virtual IT Ltd

and a somewhat curt reply:

My current resume shows my new Toronto address and Toronto phone number.
Please see attached. Where did you find the old resume?

Thank you,
xxx

ok, perhaps this resume magically arived. How else would I get a resume? Hold on - it came from TorontoJobs.com - as did a lot of resumes. I never posted the job there, I think they harvested it from my Craigslist post. I`ll give her the benefit of the doubt:

It was emailed to us via Torontojobs.com. Did you not apply for the position? Torontojobs.com seem to have hijacked our craigslist job post

Rob

Benefit of the doubt. See, I`m patient, I`m a nice enough sort. But when I get a reply like this:

Sorry which position exactly?

I just completely lose my mind. Don`t people want to work???????

I’m sorry, if you can’t remember sending us a resume, I don’t think we have a good fit here. Best of luck in you job search

Regards

Robert Hof

Note to all job seekers - KNOW WHO YOU SEND YOUR RESUMES TO! That`s a $200k a year job out the window for her. As they say on the evil dating sites: `good luck in your search`