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How diligent are you guys when filling out stupid text boxes in the application pertaining to your work experience, club activities, etc?

I am not talking about important details of the application obviously, but all the stuff that you have already written in nausea in the essays and resume.

Without any spell checking or formatting it's just a catastrophy waiting to happen.

For example:
Description of employer's business and/or the business unit within which you work, including size of organization(300 character limit):
or
Briefly describe your responsibilities:

300 words? Did you really write that much for each one? :maniac

jaynayak · Answer

I just copy whatever is written on the company's website.

Copy and paste whatever is in the resume.

Nsentra · Answer

Not bad, not bad

aaudetat · Answer

Please note that 300 CHARACTERS is much less than 300 WORDS. A lot less.

Also, for almost all of those, I had a Word doc that I typed everything into. Once I was satisfied with the length/content, then I would paste it in. I had fun describing the Pizza Hut corporation on one of my apps. I mean, duh.

Nsentra · Answer

Thx, aau, I'm not so bright. :oops:

If you were a character, what character would you be?

aaudetat · Answer

Nah, you're cool. As for characters, a friend and I became obsessed with the letter "ya" from the Russian alphabet. We spent long hours plotting how to bring it into the English language. What about you?

pelihu · Answer

Toys "ya" Us already brought that letter to the US. You are too late.

lepium · Answer

Just one piece of advice, watch out for copy & paste issues! Boy did I sweat about a position within an extra which made no sense. Got admitted to that school, though. :-D

Nsentra · Answer

Well how about  ж (zh). Many of my American friends think we have a snowflake for a letter. Though it doesn't really roll of the tongue. I would think S is the coolest letter, though many of Far East characters are awesome!

aaudetat · Answer

I know little of far eastern languages. While zh is pretty nice, it doesn't hold a candle to ya.

lepium · Answer

In Spanish we have: "ch" and "ll" as characters. The alphabet goes: a,b,c,ch,d....l,ll,m,n,Ã±,...

Cheers. L.

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