oh - that's right. Use the phrases, terms, etc., that they've used in describing the position. Someone's resume didn't get through that because her degree couldn't be described in the exact way they had defined.
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Apr 25, 2012 11:39:20 am PDT #2356 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
SuziQ - Apr 25, 2012 11:43:43 am PDT #2357 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Last time I assisting in hiring, we only got the resumes, no cover letters. They had gone through HR first, but when they were forwarded to the interviewing team, we just got the resume.
Consuela - Apr 25, 2012 12:00:46 pm PDT #2358 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My ex the medical student and I agreed that Cooking With Soup was a defining trait of a certain working, lower-middle class strata in American culture. (One that we both belonged to.)
Yeah, it's a very post-war thing, using the new processed foods as a time-saving technique.
The biologists gave me the answer I wanted! Yay!
But OMG so many phone calls and meetings today, and me with my ears still ringing from last night's concert...
Steph L. - Apr 25, 2012 12:02:12 pm PDT #2359 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
This goes back to my grits question. Grits are entirely American, made from a Western Hemisphere plant, and based on American Indian cooking. Most Americans, however, do not have a cultural history of grits for breakfast.
Mmmm, grits... Waffle House turned me on to grits. Love them.
"American culture" is in Texas is probably not what American culture is in Manhattan.
That's why I don't think there is *an* American culture. We're too big.
DavidS - Apr 25, 2012 12:02:50 pm PDT #2360 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's why I don't think there is *an* American culture. We're too big.
Hunan, Szechuan or Shanghai noodles, madame?
Steph L. - Apr 25, 2012 12:03:56 pm PDT #2361 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hunan, Szechuan or Shanghai noodles, madame?
Kraft dinner, yo.
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 12:04:20 pm PDT #2362 of 30001
Because books.
That's why I don't think there is *an* American culture. We're too big.
I think there are probably American cultural traits, if that's a thing. Like, wanting it new, wanting it fast, wanting it time-saving, wanting it *perfect*. But I think that gets translated into a lot of different traditions from region to region.
Consuela - Apr 25, 2012 12:12:26 pm PDT #2363 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think there are probably American cultural traits, if that's a thing. Like, wanting it new, wanting it fast, wanting it time-saving, wanting it *perfect*. But I think that gets translated into a lot of different traditions from region to region.
Also, you have in the US a particularly-mobile subset of the workforce, namely the professional working class, which is likely to move some distance at least once during their lifetime. As a result, I think some cultural traditions (like regional accents and turns of phrase) are losing their power...
meara - Apr 25, 2012 12:14:47 pm PDT #2364 of 30001
Mmm, grits.
But I never heard of Kraft dinner until I met Canadians. So while Kraft mac and cheese may be part of my ethnic food, "Kraft dinner" isn't.
Tom Scola - Apr 25, 2012 12:16:45 pm PDT #2365 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Job: applied for.