does grammar really matter?
In the event that I am leaving, the company is scrambling to find a replacement. actually, I dont think the company care that much about losing me. I am very replaceable. One day when the two senior analysts leave they would realize that they are in deep shit.
we've been getting quite a few resume in the past few days. I get to read them as they come, picking the more qualified candidates. one resume came today by a chinese guy. I skimmed through while jenny read it more closely. She asked, what's that mean, I was like, I have no clue. if a native speaker don't even get the english, don't expect me to understand it. as she read on, more grammar mistakes were found. she said, why doesn't this guy ask american friends to proof read it first. how should I know, maybe he doesn't have any american friends. I mean luckily we are pretty lenient about grammar stuff, but I think it is important to make sure one's resume is error proof first. then again, a friend of mine got interviews with amazon and microsoft with a resume that had quite a few mistakes. of course, he had an impressive working experience. I guess it's all relative. these days, so many programmers are from china, maybe those big corps are used to getting such resumes, as long as the person has good programming skills. However, I dont think such resume would work in a more business oriented industry. Another funny thing is this guy didn't even list his undergrad school, but we figured out he graduated from tsinghua from the resume. so I don't know why he wouldn't write that, instead of only writing his graduate school. does he think that we probably has no clue about chinese schools? that could be the case since 90 percent of ppl here are white. but whatever, reading resume is fun.
we've been getting quite a few resume in the past few days. I get to read them as they come, picking the more qualified candidates. one resume came today by a chinese guy. I skimmed through while jenny read it more closely. She asked, what's that mean, I was like, I have no clue. if a native speaker don't even get the english, don't expect me to understand it. as she read on, more grammar mistakes were found. she said, why doesn't this guy ask american friends to proof read it first. how should I know, maybe he doesn't have any american friends. I mean luckily we are pretty lenient about grammar stuff, but I think it is important to make sure one's resume is error proof first. then again, a friend of mine got interviews with amazon and microsoft with a resume that had quite a few mistakes. of course, he had an impressive working experience. I guess it's all relative. these days, so many programmers are from china, maybe those big corps are used to getting such resumes, as long as the person has good programming skills. However, I dont think such resume would work in a more business oriented industry. Another funny thing is this guy didn't even list his undergrad school, but we figured out he graduated from tsinghua from the resume. so I don't know why he wouldn't write that, instead of only writing his graduate school. does he think that we probably has no clue about chinese schools? that could be the case since 90 percent of ppl here are white. but whatever, reading resume is fun.