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January 3, 2006 12:03 AM
Broken: Digitas job response via Monster.com
An anonymous reader writes:
I recently submitted my resume online via Monster.com for an opening at Digitas for a Senior Interaction Designer. The submission process was easy; no complaints there.
The problem arose when I received an auto-reply that my submission was received at 5:56 pm and then another reply at 5:57 pm saying, "While your qualifications are impressive, we do not feel they are a strong match for our current needs."
What?!?
Obviously, no human being could have read my resume and turned me down in a minute. I guess that it was keyword searching my resume for relevance, but there are many terms in our industry for the same thing. So, I tried to reword my resume and resubmit (not lie - just better match my language to be consistent with the job posting). I got the same response a minute later. I know I'm qualified to be considered for this position based on the job description, and yet no human eyes will ever see my resume.
What happened?
While this comment's qualifications are impressive, we do not feel they are a strong match for our current needs
Their response seems pretty much in line with what I've come to expect from Digitas as an interactive agency ;)
Perhaps this is a canned response which comes back if the position is no longer available? (i.e. perhaps the position was filled or cancelled, and this is the standard response until they can fill in more details about why it isn't available?)
It looks like you still haven't guessed the five keywords that must be in your resume for it to get past stage 1.
I'm with tim on this one. it's probobly a canned letter for when the cant have any more hirees or somthing. broken nonetheless.
It's possble the position is filled, but it's much more likely that they are just fishing for resumes. It's a pretty common technique.
One minute is plenty of time for a human being to reject your resume if he knows you, and hates you.
I bet he wrote it in OpenOffice.org, went to monster.com with Firefox, and sent it with Thunderbird. Buisnesses(yes, bweesnesses) hate open source, so they put their company at risk by making everybody use Microsoft products. I'd never use a server running Windows...
It's a Strong Bad Email reference. The thing is here:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail104.html
Unless these comments support HTML, in which case:
Thingy.
I know! Your computer is square, but theirs are cubes, Which makes it impossible for you to get a job unless you have a 3-dimentional shape!
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how bout that attractive 'reply-to' address eh?
Posted by: gmangw at January 3, 2006 12:17 AM