Skydiveandy has brought up some very good points actually, because it reminds me of some of the resumes that used to land on the Boss's desk (approximately three per week!
) at Simbu Aviation all those years ago.
I remember one morning Richard (God rest his soul) handing me the latest one to arrive and asking me what I thought of it. From memory it ran to somewhere near 6 pages and featured a photograph of a 747 on takeoff on the front page.
It went on to list where the applicant was born, raised, educated; Primary and Secondary, where he worked after leaving school, the Flying School where he did his training, interests outside Flying, hobbies etc etc.
By the time I reached the last page I must have been rolling my eyes as Richard mentioned that I should file it in the 'circular file' once I'd finished reading it, adding that he had already briefly perused it himself and no longer required it.
However, he had made a note of the Applicants address as he
always replied to them, mostly with a standard form letter stating that their experience fell below the required minimums if they indeed did. Otherwise they got a 'you will be kept on file for a month' letter.
The point is that the whole resume was a huge overkill! Richard once told me that a single page resume with a single page covering letter
was all he required! And also that if they didn't already have the minimums, which for him was 1000hrTT, MEIFR and preferably a bit of remote area experience, then they should not bother sending anything!
There was another one which arrived a bit later where the applicant easily had the minimums and possibly would have scored a job with Simbu but the resume and covering letter were full of mis-spellings and poor grammar.
That's another story.