The day I sifted through a thousand resumes

Today, I brought my personal laptop to work which gave me the ability to go through applications from recent job postings from my work.  I was surprised to see that I had around a thousand applications (its a sad reflection of our economy).

Here is what I saw:

• The local professional sports mascot applied.  I thought it was funny.
• I'm not the grammar police but please proofread your work.
• I saw the statement "Served guests, poor drinks".  I'm sure they meant pour instead of poor.  It had me laughing all day.
• Don't include your picture especially if it is a sexy personal ad picture.  I don't need to see it and it easily gets you rejected.
• Please add a cover letter or something to your email instead of just a resume.  I'll admit I probably wont read it but it shows me you at least spent some time on the application email.
• A lot of jobs start to blend together when viewing tons of applications. Things that stood out to me were people who have worked in airlines, casinos, amusement parks, and jobs I've never heard of.  It made me do a double take on the applicants resume.
• There are a lot of state workers, construction workers, and mortgage workers applying for jobs.
• I probably will not call you unless you are called for an interview.
• Do not print out your resume, white out part of it, write something new in, scan it and email it as a submission.  It looks really really bad.

I've still got 250 applications to go through. I might add more later.