A BINDING CONTRACT...YOUR RESUME

Before we get into the basic issue addressed in the title of this thesis allow me to do three things: First; make and observation. Second; offer an opinion & Third; make a statement of fact.

First: The observation is, the cost of a college education is steadily, increasing.  At last estimate the average cost of a college education was somewhere around $20,000.00 a year.

Second: If your home is the most important investment you can make and your car is the second, then a solid education is the third most important investment you will make, in your life.

Third: The fact is, if you look at the investment in education as the third most important; strictly in terms of an [investment] then that money can be better spent. 

With real-estate foreclosures at an all time high, purchasing a piece of income property, at least a 6 unit apartment building, would better serve the purpose that a college education does.

In the realm of, Intelligence v. Intellect, being able to use your smarts to make life better for yourself, is accomplished more readily by securing an income adequate enough to meet your needs and provide for your desired level of comfort.

Spending four years; in college just of graduate to a personal debt of $60-$80,000.00 makes o sense.  Especially when you consider that large corporations are off-shoring jobs as fast as rabbits have babies.

So relying on a college education for an income that will meet your needs for the future is literally rolling the dice on whether you will be homeless or live with your parents.

It would make more sense, if you are going to invest in a college education to do so with the intent of coming out of college into your own business, a business that you started in your sophomore year.

And if your had a business you would be able to understand the old adage “ good help is hard to find.”

When you started to expand your business or just heir extra help to meet increased demand, you will learn to read a resume as a commitment; a promise by the prospective employee, to be a productive asset to the future of your business. The key word is productive.

Just having another body on the payroll turning in time and getting paid does not equate to productivity nor does it add to the bottom line.  In fact it equals out to unnecessary over head and the added head ache of having to go through the hassle of firing and non productive employee.

So when you’re preparing your resume filing out your application, put your self in your future employees position.  Would you want to hire someone who just wanted a job?  Someone with the attitude; they will learn how to work the job and not let the job work them?  No.

Then think of trying to get ride of a useless worker and having to fight their claim of discrimination or unfair termination.

It would seem fair if the unemployment bureau just allowed the employer to show where you may have not lived up to the claims you made on your resume. 

Yes on your resume, you swore to being a conscientious worker, a self starter, someone willing to work over time.  But the truth was you took every Monday after payday off, if your supervisor didn’t immediately, tell you what the next job was, you would sit and wait till they did. And when asked to pull over time, you got indignant.    

You took extended breaks for lunch, and quite often engaged other employees, in conversation, so as to inhibit their productivity.   

No, you were nothing like what you wrote in your resume but it’s your employers fault for hiring you.

 Make no mistake to an employer a resume is a quick peek at the potential of the person your heir.  A preview, if you will, of how much your productivity will be enhanced by taking this person on board. 

When that person does to live up to the picture they’ve painted of themselves, on the resume, it cost you time, productivity, and money.

 Next time you prepare a resume trying being honest or at least, make sure you can live up to the information you put on paper.

 Or better yet start your own business and then you can remember what hiring is all a bout and when you question a prospective employee look deep into their eyes when you go over their resume with them, You will be able to tell if they’re blowing smoke up your skirt or not. 

 Face it a contract tract is a contract, whether you’re employer or employee   one promises to do the work and the other promises to pay for it. And fair exchange equals no robbery.