And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
Let's substitute Shakespeare’s use of the word
'gentlemen' for the phrase 'hiring managers' or 'recruiters'.
I feel very strongly that the individuals conducting an
initial review of resumes upon seeing military experience automatically pass
over the individual.
Case(s) in point:
A recruiter last week asked me
to remove my military experience and substitute 'additional experience upon
request' even though what I did in the Army Signal Corps was exactly what the
company was looking for.
Google Fiber passed me by for a
position working with the team installing Google Fiber in Austin, TX even
though I'm a certified fiber optic field engineer - not too many of those
running around.
I believe (too) that individuals in the age group dubbed ‘millennial’
are doing the initial review(s) and that the sediments expressed in the St. Crispin’s
Day Speech penned in 1599 are right on the money.
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