Craigslist job ad is working

[Zoe Girl]

I put my assistant job up yesterday, I already have 4 inquiries. Of course being Craigslist they are not necessarily good matches but it gives me more than I had. I have had no applications to my job ad on the district website, I was supposed to see it on Indeed but it is not listed there, and it has been about 2 months. So not happy with my HR department that there has been no advertising. I have 2 part time jobs open right now, the aide position has been up since the first day of school and this one for 2 months. I am not sure I want to post the aide position on Craigslist however, there is a pooled ad out there that I need to check on and I want to recruit at the closest high school for this one.

So far I have an applicant with a legal background who led women's water polo, one with administrative background who did work at the YMCA but not with kids, and one with actual work experience with kids who is so bad at spelling I could barely read her resume. We have a fair number of front line staff that are functionally illiterate. I don't know how to work with this, especially since they are not my regular staff. I am not grading them on spelling in their work but I also know it can hold them back. I now am looking at this resume that includes an administrative assistant job at a small university that makes me cringe. Then there is the rampant poor language in our department. I know that many people with a higher education notice it, however I hear "I seen" often from several supervisors and my colleagues. Any suggestions about this, I think it could be a very sensitive issue.

So crossing my fingers that I can hire someone!!

[iris lilies]

I once had a persistent someone submit an application for a job requiring much attention to data entry detail that had this on the resume: "I have grate atention to details." Scary thing was, she kept submitting the same poorly spelled application each time one of these jobs came open.

Um, no.

onto your question: I regularly reviewed resumes from people of various ethnic backgrounds for jobs that paid $21,000 annually. What amazed me was how good their resumes were as far as spelling, punctuation, and presentation; they were pretty much perfect.

For that reason, it would give me grave pause to bring in people who submit resumes and application letters rife with error. there will be more errors in the letters than in the resumes unless you are getting canned letters.

[Zoe Girl]

I agree on the errors in resumes and letters. Part of this job will be detail oriented data entry, not complicated but I currently spend over 3 hours a month double checking the details without an assistant. My goal is to only correct the most complicated issues. Right now I have a staff doing basic data entry and I correct a lot because I am not asking her to become an expert.

[pinkytoe]

I have to review applications as part of my job and it is my least favorite thing to do. Very often, I use intuition and a person's varied life experience as important parts of the decision. Right now, I have to find my own replacement since I am retiring. Yuck! The one really good sounding applicant made a grievous error by putting Dear Ms. Wrong Name on her cover letter. Typos and errors are important factors to consider though as far as I am concerned.

[Zoe Girl]

just started on the hiring process for my assistant and interviewed a great candidate for the aide job, whew