[mathattack]

Do schools really make people take an MS Word class? I've never seen anyone have the courage to put that on a resume or transcript.

[rebekah-aimee]

Mine does. They called it "Intro to Computers" but it was really just a giant ad for MS Office. The only part of it that most people wouldn't already know was the Access databases... which they had in the curriculum for some reason. I don't know of anyone who actually uses it at work.

At least they let you test out. The only reason I know Access is in the curriculum is that I BSed my way through that part of the test. Probably the reason it was there was so more people would have to spend money on taking the class.

[mdpopescu]

I've had people show up with Word and Excel on their resumes when I was advertising hiring C# programmers...

[mathattack]

Are these long resumes playing Keyword Bingo, or shorter resumes?

I've kept my resume to 1 page and avoid the table stakes skills.

[mdpopescu]

One, two pages at most. They just had no clue about programming and had to put something in there. Ours is a strange field :)

[mathattack]

Indeed. In this instance a negative keyword filter would be appropriate. :-)