```json
{
    "title": "RESUMES SUCK!",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/08/12/resumes-suck/",
    "datePublished": "2005-08-12",
    "dateModified": "2005-08-12",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "#### Start Rant I have an online resume. I can get you it in several forms. However, if you are hiring me because of what you see in that piece…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# RESUMES SUCK!

#### Start Rant

I have an [online resume](http://www.pierzchala.com/smp_cv.php). I can get you it in several forms.
However, if you are hiring me because of what you see in that piece of paper...
**I DON'T WANT TO WORK FOR YOUR COMPANY!**
Lisa Haneberg posted a great [article](http://managementcraft.typepad.com/management_craft/2005/08/resumes_are_so_.html) on this today.
The problem with me and my resume is that there is no way to capture what I can do or what I know on a piece of paper. I have a non-linear mind and am a technical person with an artistic temperment. I do not fit into your neat little corporate boxes. I am not org-chart friendly.
I flame most recruiters, because they haven't taken the time to note that (and this is on all of my resumes, no matter where I post them):

 I am a Canadian living in the US and working on an H1-B
 I am **ONLY** entertaining offers from companies on the West Coast

Most recruiters are stupid, at least in my mind. They are desperately clinging to a niche where, like Wile E. Coyote, the ground on which they stand has evaporated.
The great thig is that I know the companies that I want to work for. But I also know that these companies never even look at me because their HR "process" is designed to weed out independent-minded, intelligent, experienced, non-linear thinkers. They want young, fresh mind-slaves.
Am I bitter and angry? Yeah. Why? Because every manager I have had has said the same thing to me, repeatedly: "You are great and your knowledge is astounding, but we don't know how to use you effectively because you don't fit into an org-chart box".
You know what not fitting into an org-chart box has done to me career? Limited my exposure to clients, locked me out of the strategic decision-making process, prevented me from assisting with infrastructure design and assessment, and seen career-advancement promise after promise fall by the wayside.
I am looking for a company who wants me and will let me have business cards with **NO TITLE ON THEM**.
I am what I know, not what you, the company, tell people I do.

#### End rant

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