In case you didn't know

[kierthos]

Today (March 10th) is "Free Resume day" at FedEx Kinko's.

If you go in today, you can get 25 black and white copies of your resume (however many pages it may be) for free, on any of the resume papers in stock.

Of course, at the store I work at, this is, rather ironically, coinciding with Spring Break at the university practically across the street. To which we have already received one whiny complaint. Yesterday. From some college student doing full-bleed color resumes on 11x17 paper.

Some people are special.

Comments

[jdack.livejournal.com]

Sounds like somebody didn't pay attention in class when a proper resume was explained.

We always toss the fruity looking ones without reading them.

[egearman.livejournal.com]

I've seen the non-standard color/paper get attention for a bit, sometimes. But unless the qualifications can back up the need to put it on blue paper, it'll get binned with the rest.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

We actually have a blue resume paper. And a pink one. Not a whole lot of people use them, but we have them.

Most of the time, though, if a customer asks what paper they should get their resume printed on, I point them towards the white, ivory or sandstone colored ones. You know... the normal goddamn colors for resumes.

[mithras.livejournal.com]

If he was a graphic artist, it's understandable.

Sorta.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

She. And no, it's not.

Your resume is your resume. Your portfolio is your portfolio.

Do not confuse the two.

[my-window-seat.livejournal.com]

GODDAMNIT I wish I'd known about this.

Grrrrr.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Shockingly, it was not greatly advertised. Because, you know, doing a sale or a giveaway in order to potentially bring in business should be kept a secret, even from the people working at the store. (I found out, by accident, about the free resume day about a week before anyone else did.)

[my-window-seat.livejournal.com]

Bah. And here I am about to carpet-bomb the Dallas area with resumes, and it's going to have to come out of my own damn pocket.

Oh, well. At least B&W is cheap.