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For those that think my advice is aiming too low… I’m beginning to think that it is physically impossible to aim ‘too low’.

It may also be a sign that if you are good, you can rise above the rest and get noticed.

I would expect someone with an experiened work history to have more than a 1 page CV.

I imagine HR and the hiring manager would have different standards: HR – never been to grad school; hiring manager – been there done that, got the degree.

Didn’t want to make too big a deal of it (esp in light of B3s comments), but there you go. And yeah looking for a job sucks.

At my last job, when they asked the profoundly annoying question ‘why should we hire you instead of him’, I answered ‘I’m taller’. What the catnip is someone supposed to answer that with? You have no way of knowing anything about the other people, so there’s no real way to answer that question without BSing it.

Though eventually I did. I didn’t want to have to live up to it :)

“I know folks are dedperate for work out there. Everyone knows it.”

And this was a good read, of course for myself, I have tried a few times to write a cover letter, and to be honest, I haven’t really done any sort of jobs worth putting on a resume, and I couldn’t even try to spew out enough stuff for a cover letter, BS or not.

I guess I just need to stick to the fill out the application jobs. :)

Paul (his real name – who of you will know him!) was looking to become a legal advisor in this department. The interview had not gone well, and Paul was worried he had failed to make an impression of any note. So when the obligatory question “Why should we hire you?” came up, he decided to take a different approach. He leaned back in his chair, and in his slowest drawl said “All the applicants have the required degree. In addition to that I have good looks and boyish charm”.

The interviewing panel froze, and Paul thought he had blown it… till the next day when he got the call offering him the job. It was risky, and in many situations would have seen him out on his behind. But in this one case it achieved what he needed: it set him apart from the rest. His interview was never forgotten, by him or by his boss.

So I agree: without behind an arsehole, find a way to stand out. Who needs prepackaged answers. If the job needed a monkey they would hire one.

As an active duty military member (looking retirement in the eye), I can tell you that your points are extremely valid for corporate America, but government jobs are different. Resumes are put through an automated system that searches for key words. The more key words that are in your resume, the higher you get ranked.

The best advice I ever got about job hunting was to apply for the job I wanted, even if I didn’t have all the qualifications listed. Employers (like me) will list our ideal candidate because it’s our one shot to daydream about the impossible. And if we don’t list ‘Polish fluency desirable’, we’ll never get a Polish speaker on staff, which would be, well, desirable.

But if that was a job I wanted, I’d apply anyway and use my customized cover letter to address those shortcomings. I’d say that I don’t meet that criteria but I have skills x, y, and z that may compensate or puts me above my peers in another area. I’d also state how I’d be willing to meet that criteria in the near term if hired – either through classes or what have you.