Thread: HR help - Stupid CV's

Originally Posted by 3toes

And the person who placed the add will be in the paper next week complaining that they cannot find anyone to fill the position, where are all those unemployed people ?

And
'We need more 3rd world labour here'

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I saw one the other day, manage warehouse & staff, stock control, sales, phone sales, office admin, deliveries, store & shop housekeeping and other duties as required. Then came a list of qualifications as long as your arm. Salary $35 000 + super
You wouldn't get me for that (Maccas) money, even from the neck down.

A mate recently applied for a job as a Factory Foreman. He has considerable experience as a factory and workshop foreman in the motor and machinery trades. The company makes mowers and other grass and lawn equipment and small garden/acreage tractors. He was told there are around 60 factory workers on average and up to 80 at peak periods.

He was staggered to find out at the interview that he was not only required to have fork lift and crane tickets but was to be the fork and crane driver. He declined to accept the offer telling the HR person that a foreman supervises and trains workers. He does not operate machinery.

In fact in pretty well all shops of that size in the past, if a foreman attempted to operate a machine, the workers would have been out on the grass within minutes.