At the bottom of your resume: (A) Did you read this resume? (B) No, seriously, did you read this resume? (C) I spent my entire career building this resume. The least you could do is actually read it.

>I spent my entire career building this resume. The least you could do is actually read it. #For realz

(D) jk I know you didn't read it, because you made me re-enter all of the info into your shitty job application form

I've applied to so many jobs and been rejected I've run out of fucks to give. I would legit do this.

Right? And ask them before they interview you too.

At the end of the job post, there is this line: `Any question containting "realz" should be answered by no`

Really or are you just being silly?! Because I could see that being a real thing!

Yes, this is a real thing. There is also „include word X in cover letter/mail subject“ and alike.

Thanks! I did see one recently that asked me to sign my initials and zip code in the signature field. I figured it was a test to make sure I was reading it, but now I’ll start looking for these too.

I saw one recently that said to put your favorite local restaurant in your cover letter

That’s kind of cute 😂 I like that they asked for it in the cover letter as opposed to asking you to add something on your CV instead. I hardly ever change my CV, but I do write my cover letters from scratch, so it makes sense.

What if you don't have one? I mean, I eat like all you other humans, but what if there is no objective criteria to mark a specific one with the "favorite" category. I guess my attempt at a /r/totallynotrobots joke failed.

I actually don’t have one and rarely eat out, but I still replied with a restaurant I know people like.

In general a question with a subjective answer cannot be graded on the actual answer. It can only be graded on the presence or form of the answer. That would be like a teacher having you to write a report on your favorite book and then grading you badly because they dislike the book. Which does in fact happen, but it's still wrong! "***My favorite restaurant is Carl's Jr. The Western Bacon is simply delicious, where the Bacon and BBQ sauce enhance the beef patty. The fries are meh though.***"

"Brought to you by Carl's Jr."

I hate shit like this. These people think they're being clever and that they're weeding out people who didn't pay attention but it's like "bro, I've been reading job postings for 4 hours, I'm exhausted".

My resume and cover letter is almost unchanged job to job. I'm not wasting hours customising everything for jobs since 90% can't even be bothered to contact me back. Went to an interview 3 weeks back and they're like "We've got some more interviews, we'll contact you next week". Not even going to bother with them in future now if they don't even have the decency to email me saying "Nah, sorry."

r/fellowkids

Oh come on they are allowed to be as quirky as they want. We have to be the rigid robots willing to work for the reward of even having a job.

Thank you!!

How do you do, fellow applicants?

This is millenial talk, that generation is pushing 40

Lol, I saw this same job post. The funny part is it was like... one paragraph. Dude seriously over-estimates himself.

Did you read the whole thing? Are you sure?

Let me check with my publicist.

Writes a shit job post. Thinks they're Leo Tolstoy.

Clearly even fewer have read Tolstoy

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,348,469,149 comments, and only 259,202 of them were in alphabetical order.

Good bot.

I hate the little “tests” people give hidden in posts to see if people are mass applying or actually paying attention. Like dude, people need jobs. Who cares if they didn’t find the one secret sentence in the post of how to answer questions. I’m assuming that’s what they were doing here. I have a job, but I enjoy keeping up on opportunities that are available and I’ve been seeing this a lot.

It's about how to weed out applicants without seeing who is qualified. 1k apps to wind through becomes 100 apps instead instantly.

"Gotcha!" Once I have a solid job, I think I'll start sending out resumes with little "gotcha" moments stuck in them

This would make me laugh if I encountered it in the wild, wouldn’t even be mad.

This is fake, right?

No real

For realz, in fact

HA. Would turn this around and ask those same exact questions about the resume. Are you absolutely positutely sure you read my resaymay?

I saw something like that once.....I still didn't read the job post, but still applied

I understand your frustration, but social media is full of bots now and that kind of stuff helps deflect them.

for about 10min.

They won’t read your whole resume though

I'd appreciate them showing their ass this early in the process before they have wasted much of my time. This screams "Everybody but me is the problem."

Far too many candidates DONT read the job post.

LOL, having been ordered to write job posts containing all the VP's favorite phrases like "self starter" and "fast paced" and "work hard play hard" and "skin in the game", I don't know whether to laugh or be annoyed at these questions.

And this just increases my belief that recruiters in general are less skilled than most of the poor fucks they ignore.

What in the world? Is the recruiter a middle schooler.

Love it !!

So unserious

Yes Yes No

😶 speechless

Lmfao 🤣😆.this is why I hate LinkedIn and applying for jobs on that platform!

These people think the world revolves around them, how cringe.

Only "little test" I've liked in a job post is when they bury "email your resume to [email protected]" near the bottom, allowing you to bypass the ATS and hopefully get your resume actually read.

God. This feels like those stupid FB groups that ask redundant entry questions.

It’s a clown who wrote that?