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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Rants and Debate => Topic started by: Joseph41 on August 15, 2018, 04:49:18 pm
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Story here.
Essentially, a lawyer paid this company hundreds of dollars, the company stuffed up her resumé - they even used the wrong name. The lawyer is now suing. Some quotes:
A lawyer who paid an online resumé company $600 to write her a job application for Australia's spy agency has successfully sued the business after it misspelt ASIO and used someone else's name to apply.
Jobseeker Susan Cole, aged in her 50s, filed a 136-page complaint with the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal against 1300 Resume after missing out on her dream job because of a CV she says was "littered with errors".
She didn't proofread the resumé before submitting it.
I really don't know about services like this in the first place, though. Like, is it even moral to have somebody else write a job application for you? Would organisations then be hiring under false pretences?
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Story here.
Essentially, a lawyer paid this company hundreds of dollars, the company stuffed up her resumé - they even used the wrong name. The lawyer is now suing.
She didn't proofread the resumé before submitting it.
I really don't know about services like this in the first place, though. Like, is it even moral to have somebody else write a job application for you? Would organisations then be hiring under false pretences?
Wow, okay. This is a pretty foolish case. Undoubtedly, if the lady just figured out her own resume, proof-read it before submitting it or (just a thought) realised after multiple previous tries that ASIO didn't want her, none of this would have gone down.
Of course, the amount of mistakes made were unacceptable, especially at such a hefty price - I believe the compensation awarded by VCAT was fair. But truthfully, I don't agree with a company taking people's money to write their resumes. There's already good templates out there - why get another person to write something most likely incorrect about you? It's not a true representation of the person you're hiring, and I feel like this sort of scheme isn't on the straightest of roads. I feel like it's cheating.
Also, the woman who paid for the help in the first place is a lawyer over 50 years old applying for a job with Australia's intelligence agency... Out of anyone, she should know how to write well. This case would have had VCAT members rolling their eyes.
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I really don't know about services like this in the first place, though. Like, is it even moral to have somebody else write a job application for you? Would organisations then be hiring under false pretences?
On this specific case, I think the VCAT decision was correct: she didn't get the service she paid for.
Though I do find it a little amusing that she can write (?) a 136-page complaint but isn't confident writing a job application.
In the general case, though, yes, I think it's completely moral.
The job application is rarely the final step, and anecdotal evidence says it is often a long and complicated process going through a full formal job application process. The typical number quoted is under a minute for the recruiter to decide whether or not to continue based on the CV, or even an automatic algorithm rejecting it because it hasn't been stuffed with all the right keywords. So I don't see a problem with getting help from experts to put it in the best light and remove potential disqualifiers (so long as they are still presenting an accurate picture at the end). If an interview comes out of it then that's the time when the recruiter can expect to deal with the real person (not with a quick summary of some of that person's achievements).
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To be honest, though, I must say that I agree with one of the comments at the bottom of the article. "If I knew you couldn't write a resumé I wouldn't hire you." Why should you hire someone so obviously incompetent? On the other hand, she did not receive the service that she paid for, so even though I would say that it is unethical to pay someone else to write a CV for you, I think that her claim to reimbursement is all right. However, to say that she "missed out on a dream job" all because of the CV is stupid. She has absolutely no idea about whether she would have got the job even with a perfectly written CV. I just think the whole thing is making a fuss about something that was her fault in the first place, though I do think she probably should get her money back.