Re: Amusing (?) resume

From: Mariann Storck (mstorck@execpc.com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 1996 - 06:07:53 PDT


Perhaps this is an opportunity to educate another member of the public
at large. Who knows why this person is trying to enter the work force
after all these years but to jump all over her for a lack of knowledge
doesn't seem like the kindest thing to do.
Mariann Storck
Godfrey & Kahn

Michelle J Lavoie wrote:
>
> Maybe this person hasn't managed to find a job since her last position in
> 1977. Small wonder!
>
> Michelle LaVoie
> SILS Graduate Student
> SUNY at Buffalo
> lavoie@acsu.buffalo.edu
>
> "When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should
> go into the measure, or not attempt it." -- Thomas Paine
>
> On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Evan Quenon wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately my wonderful Assistant Librarian left, so I am looking
> > through resumes. Through a mis-communication with personnel, the job
> > was not advertised as needing an MLS. I was reading through resumes
> > yesterday and came upon this gem in a cover letter.
> > "I last worked as a legal secretary in Houston in 1977, but I am sure that
> > the daily maintenance and operation of a law library has not changed
> > essentially since then."
> > Do you think I'll be interviewing this person??
> >
> > Happy Friday!
> > Evan Quenon
> >
> > Evan Quenon Equenon/bmoh@mcimail.com B
> > Head Librarian M
> > Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline O
> > Austin, Texas (512) 370-3441 fax (512) 479-1101 H
> >
> > "Onward through the fog."
> >



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