I sooooooooo feel your pain on this.
I own a staffing company and have ads running all the time. I've literally had guys that flip burgers send me resumes for Telecommunication Engineer positions.
Some of the more memorable resumes:
- Hand written on notebook paper and faxed in.
- To one up the notebook paper... hand written on a brown paper bag and faxed in.
- Under experience: I worked as a butcher's assistant cutting meat, prepared steaks and cut ham cocks. (Yep!)
- One guy listed his email address as
luv2gethigh@soandso.com... Rather than getting a new email address he added a note that he no longer gets high. Awesome.
I could go on for days... One of the good things about this stuff is that this is one reason employers use MY services. I get to go through all the resumes and they get to see ones that are already qualified. What kind of position are your trying to fill? I can help with telecom, IT and engineering requirements.
As far as headhunters telling people to send out resumes like crazy, that's not entirely the case. The "employment advisors" at the state unemployment office tell them that, but recruiters do not. You've got to at least have some skills that parallel the position you're looking for, like cutting ham cocks up if you want to install equipment in cellular phone towers.
