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I'm amused that such a resume would be binned by many HR departments.

That is some HR depatments, are so bad at their job, that they will literally lose your company the chance to get a Bill-gates-caliber dev.

I mean obviously if he gets to the technical interview, an engineer can see that he is competent. But they question is would such a resume get past HR?

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What do you mean? In 1974 this would have been a state-of-the-art resume. He typed it on a typewriter, and he's got loads of experience with computers. In 1974 thats really going to stand out.

this person is pulling out the old saw of "no mention of new sexy technologies like node graphql etc" about resume from a 1974 Harvard student. lol. newsflash those were all hot tech in 1974 and besides any year in the last 100 (including 2019) a Harvard student gets priority rather than binned.

- no, I didn't mean that.

> newsflash those were all hot tech in 1974 and besides any year in the last 100 (including 2019) a Harvard student gets priority rather than binned.

I'm european, so I don't really see that many harvard grads. But everythign being equal, why would I give a harvard grad priority over someone from L'X, ETH, mines, oxford, MIT..

- typos

- not mentioning highschool graduation year (But I suppose this could be hidden in the bottom)

Both these things, I've seen and heard HR employess toss CVs over in real life as well as from people talking online.

But I guess, I migh've been too biased in what I'm saying. since I'm european so there a different standards for resumes.

I've had an argument this week with the head of HR, because an employee threw the cv of a work student which had a Lüke ( a hole) in his resume. I guess I was overprojecting, which made my message too overexagerated. sorry.

What are the reasons for which you're saying it would be binned?

(I'm asking because I want to understand, I'm not implying you're wrong)

"I'm throwing this CV away since our requirements clearly state PDP-9 experience and I don't see that mentioned anywhere. I'm also assuming this candidate is unable to learn anything new."

You are amusing yourself by assuming (without basis) that the resume would be binned.

Care to explain why do you think so?

If you think it’s the company’s loss you are totally missing the point. Due to our economic system and incentives a LOT of companies have gotten “Bill Gates Caliber” people and it’s certainly not the HR or companies loss it’s the worlds and people living in its loss.

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