Tell me more about your experience!

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

[Coworker] and I were looking over resumes for a prospective new hire position today, and noticed that [coworker]'s most favored applicant so far listed - I shit you not - "Acrobat Reader" as one of his "computer experience" bullet points.

Wow. Acrobat Reader. You can double-click the PDF file and watch it open up in Reader, huh? HIRE THIS KID NOW!

Comments

[inahandbasket]

I have Acrobat on my resume as well, in the "support experience" section. If applying for a support position it's valuable to list all the apps you've got experience supporting.

If he means using it, then yeah. Snark away.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Using.

[kuang.livejournal.com]

Understanding what a PDF actually is puts him ahead of most managers..

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I was going to say something quite similar. Based on the experiences I've had of upper management at the $MEGACORP I work at now, and at the $MEGACORP my dad works for, knowing what a PDF is, knowing that you need a specific type of program to read it, and knowing what that program might be and how to operate it are actually very rare skills.

Of course, if you're applying for a tech support job it might not be appropriate to have there, but considering the people I know who have been promoted to management out of tech support, and those who haven't, the type of person who will toot their own horn about knowing something as basic as Adobe Reader is far more likely to get promoted well above his/her Peter Principle.

So I guess he's gunning for management in a few months...

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

the type of person who will toot their own horn about knowing something as basic as Adobe Reader is far more likely to get promoted well above his/her Peter Principle.

Dr. Peter said, "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Is there some level at which people somehow become competent again?

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Certainly not that I've seen, but my evidence is purely based on personal experience. :)

[erunamiryene.livejournal.com]

XD

Oh, and love the icon! :D

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*
I just ganked it too!

[syberghost.livejournal.com]

Wait, what if he *WROTE IT*? ;)

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

It could be worse.

In my world, I still have users who cannot comprehend that PDF files don't, as a general rule, open in WORD.

*sob*

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

But... it has WORDS in it! Hurr hurr hurr...

[jecook]

That reminds me...

I need to put "experience creating customized installation packages for Adobe Acrobat Reader" on my resume, along with the other automation tricks I've learned at work...

Part of that is creating a customized installation that is completely neutered as far as performing updates. ever.

[fluffydragon.livejournal.com]

If it's only the second on a list of two bullet points, and the first is "Microsoft Word", THEN I'd chuckle. If it's at the bottom of six or seven.. ::shrug::.

I'm far from being in a support role, persay, but we don't have Acrobat Writer, only Reader, and I work in a graphic artist position. You wouldn't believe how many otherwise very intelligent coworkers I've had come to me and ask me to scan in a document in our standard scanner, and ask me to make the words 'editable'-also knowing nothing about any file format, Acrobat or otherwise. I'm aware there is technology available somewhere for this sort of thing, but it's not on our list of urgent needs/upgrades. Not above 'Want more RAM' anyway.

Riiiiiiiiiight. Here's a lollipop, leave me alone.

(okay, it's only been two or three people, but this is the first and probably only time I can rant about my work in this forum ;))

[jjjiii]

That's not fair. I can also fill out forms AND I know the SECRET method of converting the PDF file to PAPER. Can YOU do these things?

[pellucidae.livejournal.com]

somewhere, some time, some recruiter has tossed a resume aside because it doesn't mention Acrobat Reader, or some other tangential thing.

[cthulu-for-pm.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it.

Along with things like binning a resume because it doesn't mention Local Area Networks (wtf does 'LAN' mean, then?), and any other of a host of stupid recruiter actions.

It's still an amusing story.