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How do you not get hired?

I think explaining on how to get hired is far too difficult and ambiguous, due to numerous factors, to elaborate. However, I believe we can evaluate— through a glass-half-full methodology— some points that can lead one to not get hired by an employer. Add your additions but only use bulleted lists as they are clearly the most professional.

  • Using the internet in general.
  • Posting on Archinect with your real name.
  • Being a pregnant woman.
  • Being under the age of 30 or over the age of 55.
  • Living anywhere in the Southeast that doesn't have a sweet rap name (Hotlanta, 305 Mee-ahm-ee, et cetera)
  • Wearing flip-flops north of the Mason-Dixon Line
  • Not smoking enough or smoking too much marijuana
  • Having any sort of semblance to an e-mail address like "[email protected]"
  • Having an e-mail address that ends in Netscape, Compuserve, AOL or Prodigy
  • Using comic sans anywhere on your resume
  • Lie unconvincingly on your resume
  • Typos, spelling mistakes et cetera
  • Having a warrant out for your arrest

 

 
Sep 26, 11 10:54 am
Smile of Fury

not following instructions

Sep 26, 11 1:08 pm  · 
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  • not following instructions

Ahem, bulleted lists? WHERE IS YOUR PROFESSIONALISM?

Sep 26, 11 1:26 pm  · 
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brutalism&booze;

(bullet point) Lying on your resume, forgetting doing so, correcting interviewer as they read lies back to you during interview

Sep 26, 11 4:30 pm  · 
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  • Forgetting to take the watermarks off of images you stole from other people's portfolios
  • Not being liberal enough
  • Not being conservative enough
Sep 26, 11 4:35 pm  · 
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Token AE
  • Not having a job already
  • Having a job already
  • Not being creative/ technical/ business savvy enough
  • Being too creative/ technical/ business savvy
  • Being balanced between creative/ technical/ business savvy
  • Attended an Ivy League School
  • Attended a state school
  • Assuming that mastery of the software du jour is related to your overall value
  • Not knowing any software
  • Having your photo on your resume
  • Greyscale wardrobe
  • Inappropriate usage of Helvetica
  • Abhorrence of the AIA
  • Zeal for the AIA
  • Referring to anything as a "box within a box"
  • Filling only one HR quota
  • Filling more than three HR quotas
  • Wearing a three-piece hemp suit
  • Wearing no suit
  • Wearing your dad's suit
  • Wearing your mom's suit
  • Chemical dependency
  • No chemical dependency
  • Riding your bike on the street
  • Riding your bike on the sidewalk
  • Listing your parents as references or past clients

In other words, describe yourself as nebulously as possible. Nobody will be disappointed!

Sep 27, 11 1:07 pm  · 
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