Ryan has worked as a recruiter for much of his professional life. So, he’s seen a lot of resumes. He’s also seen a lot of resumes written by people wearing bad idea jeans. A few weeks ago he sent me a resume in Word doc format that had “sparkly” text. Like blinking and shimmering sort of. Some engineer at Microsoft thought it was a good idea to put that in (sort of like the ill-fated tag for Netscape AOL Mozilla), and worse still, someone else thought it would be a great idea to highlight text in his resume using it.

Even better was the list of email addresses he sent me today. These were pulled off of the tops of resumes he’s gotten recently.

DEEPDIMPLES526@BigISP.com
chocolatedelight204@BigSearchPortal.com
SPHILASCOOTE@BigISP.com
Datgirluwanb@BigSearchPortal.com

People, you can open up a free account at Yahoo/Hotmail/etc. with your full name. Did I mention it’s free?