We are hiring new people at the computer support office in the Chemistry Department and I was looking through resumes decided who we might want to hire.

One person listed languages he knew, which included pascal. I didn’t know anyone knew pascal any longer. Certainly, no one uses it. Why then clutter a resume with it? Its not like its that impressive.

Another person had a cover letter which said something about “applying for.” Thats right, it just gave a period instead of listing the position. It was obviously a fill in the blank situation, because we got another resume from the same guy that was exactly the same except the position had been put in.

Since when was Microsoft Windows a skill? At least that is what I thought, until I realized that I’ve been using Linux for so long that I have forgotten how to configure or efficiently support a Windows platform.