Why Resumes Are Useless Plus Links to Interview Questions
Resumes seem to be mostly useless, this is what Andrew Wulf thinks, and I can’t agree more. I have been conducting a few interviews lately to fill a PL/SQL contract position, and in almost all cases the resume was so overcharged with buzzwords and all kinds of technologies created in the past 10 years. However, when the moment of truth (the interview) comes, few candidates know the answer to very basic questions.
Moreover, the resumes I have seen were obviously made to order. I know that when I get the resume as an email file attachment and the Word document file name is something like: JohnDoeCompanyName.doc. This is an obvious hint that a different Word document (resume) is created for every company the staffing agency or the candidate submits the resume to. They basically tailor the resume to the specific job requirement the hiring company is looking for.
I totally agree with these quotes from Andrew Wulf’s article:
- Resumes become a kind of worm to dangle in front of the recruiter or HR fish, just enough to hook some interest.
- Tests rarely demonstrate ability other than memorization anyway; I’ve known people who aced certification tests and were utterly unable to develop any useful applications. Certifications themselves seem mostly ignored as well, probably for this good reason.
- It’s all in the way they communicate their knowledge, respond to specific questions on projects they claim to have worked on, and demonstrate a willingness to learn.
- Would you hire a homebuilder on the basis of ability to hit a nail into a board?
- The end result is not to find that one person with the exact resume matching a laundry list of technologies (they have 3.14159 years of JUnit!) but someone who can work successfully with the other team members, is capable of doing or learning anything required, knows how to think, and has some kind of track record of actual work.
In any case, here are a few links to Oracle interview questions:
- www.geekinterview.com/Interview-Questions/Oracle
- www.get-best.com/IT_Interview_Questions/oracleDBAQA1.htm
- www.techinterviews.com/index.php?cat=12
- www.kyapoocha.com/category/oracle-interview-questions
- dev.fyicenter.com/interview/oracle.html
- thinkoracle.blogspot.com/2007/06/sql-interview-questions.html
- www.oraclemusings.com/?p=61
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“the resumes I have seen were obviously made to order”
well, at least you’re getting made to order. there is nothing more annoying than to open a resumw in Word, go to the Properties and find out it was written for another person by another company…
doesn’t anyone examine the Properties of a Word document anymore?
Jeeez…..
Check out this guy who applies for a job in our company with a 2+ years of past experience in our company!!
We haven’t heard about him working with us anytime before
Can’t agree more! Resumes can end up wasting time for both the employer and applicant. Unfortunately, resumes are the human resource / recruiters / applicant’s form of currency. However, there’s plenty of counterfeit currency out there. Resume certification is where the future is……….
But you cant put all candidates with the same measure, In this case, people having serious 20 years of international experience and still have been asked for the written test and the questions were prepared refering 3976543 books each with 56776554 pages!!!! Well, I don’t care if somebody is going to judge me based on that test.
check out this for oracle interview questions http://nerdinterview.com/category/oracle-interview-questions/
Expect a lot more rubbish as the desperation levels rise in the current recession, and people struggle to hold on to existing jobs or to find new ones.
According to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, the income of a young man in his 30s is now 12% below that of man of his age three decades ago.
An indication of the tough conditions is that “the typical American puts in 350 more hours than the average European, more even than the notoriously industrious Japanese”
Darrell
Master Job Interviews
Just to reply to the last comment (being a European). Though it is true Americans work more hours, research has shown that their productivity is less.
I would highly recommend reading “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferris. Maybe slightly offtopic but a great read on how to focus on the things that matter without wasting our time on unimportant tasks
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