Yeah, this is a great opener to break the ice with during an interview.
You can even add some prestidigitation by having them take 30 seconds to Google it and your name comes up. Play it off as a joke and now everyone has a little smirk/chuckle over it.
Now they know you have a good personality and can tell a funny joke about yourself. Goes a long way to putting you in that “I can work with this person” category.
Also, if they can’t appreciate the joke, that’s an easy red flag for you that you probably don’t ever want to work for that team.
Can you reassure me then with the data that backs up your claim? Because in my very long career I've seen a lot of people use heuristics when deciding who to follow up with.
"According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 70% of employers check out applicants’ profiles as part of their screening process, and 54% have rejected applicants because of what they found."
Yeah, this is a great opener to break the ice with during an interview.
You can even add some prestidigitation by having them take 30 seconds to Google it and your name comes up. Play it off as a joke and now everyone has a little smirk/chuckle over it.
Now they know you have a good personality and can tell a funny joke about yourself. Goes a long way to putting you in that “I can work with this person” category.
Also, if they can’t appreciate the joke, that’s an easy red flag for you that you probably don’t ever want to work for that team.
You both make good points, on second thought it’s all about how you spin it :)
Get your resume. HR looks up your name. Throws out the resume. It could be fun if you can get an interview. It might hurt you though.
If HR is going to throw it out because of the title alone, they're going to be obnoxious to deal with even in the scale of HR departments.
Or they are just busy. A pile of a hundred resumes and two open positions usually means you disqualify quickly.
Sometimes we need to pay rent and deal with obnoxious HR departments.
This is just not something that actually happens.
Can you reassure me then with the data that backs up your claim? Because in my very long career I've seen a lot of people use heuristics when deciding who to follow up with.
"According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 70% of employers check out applicants’ profiles as part of their screening process, and 54% have rejected applicants because of what they found."
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