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hmonkey · November 2009

i'm going through resumes right now, and someone included a "ps" on their cover letter. i give a huge side eye to that.would you ps a cover letter?maybe i give a side eye to all ps ever since psycho exbf used to ps his ps with total bs.

6fsn · November 2009

ps is juvenile and unprofessional.

baconsmom · November 2009

Um, no.

VarunaTT · November 2009

WTH do you need to PS about in a cover letter?

Mrs.Thistletwat · November 2009

DED @ ps his ps with total bs

hmonkey · November 2009

ps i found X job through X website.

~~Busy.~~ · November 2009

That's odd but not a deal breaker. I would not ps a cover letter, or piss on one either.

NOLABridesmaid · November 2009

I want to know what he ps'ed. I don't think that's a word.

GBCK · November 2009

Uhm, NO.*climbing onto soapbox*PS was post script to be added back in the day when typed letters had to be typed and when hand written letters had to be penned. (so that they'd have to be completely re-done if someone had a afterthought)They have NO BUSINESS in a professional document done a word-processing program.If you have an 'afterthought', you edit your damn letter

VarunaTT · November 2009

Yeah, that's like the first line in my letter. "I was notified of X job from X service."I wouldn't shove it out with the trash immediately, but that'd better be one heckuva strong cover letter and resume. That makes it sound to me like it's their form letter and they just change their PS to keep it easy.

tawillers · November 2009

Yeah, that's like the first line in my letter. "I was notified of X job from X service."Ditto. A ps doesn't have any place in a professional cover letter.

hmonkey · November 2009

there's also a lot of highly illegal stuff in here -- birthdates, martial status and other such stuff. there are a lot of foreign candidates but still. don't need to include a picture, people!

PMeg819 · November 2009

That person is just an idiot. Birthdates and marital status are CV junk, and even then I don't see that all the time.

6fsn · November 2009

Wait. I thought it was illegal to ask those things, but you were allowed to volunteer the info.

GBCK · November 2009

I think it's legal to volunteer the info...but I eliminated them from my running when they did and I was hiring peeps.Because 1-they don't get it and 2-It makes it to hard for me to not let crap influence my decision.I WANT the resume to be purely factual. So that I can say "hmm, this person has 2 years of tutoring experince and 3 degrees vs this person has 8 months of working at McD's"If I *KNOW* Person A is caring for his aging parents and has 4.3 kids so misses work for that and I know person B is single and a workaholic, it's hard for me not to, at least ona very subconscious level, have that niggle in the back of my head. And I don't want toSO if they include that sort of stuff, I put them in the "B choice" category.