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== Handwritten Resumes ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' The wonderful Doug. Doug asked, what would your reaction be to a handwritten resume? I would, there's other parts to this question, but we'll start with this part first. If I, if honestly, even me, I would find it unprofessional. If somebody gave me a handwritten resume, I just feel like that that's not the way that you should do something like that. You know, like it would have to be superbly written, like just like calligraphy up and down, right? To make it stand out. Like there has, there would have to be a reason that people would give you a handwritten resume. Um, and I think that that reason would have to be because it's wonderful. I would be more inclined if somebody emailed me a scan of a handwritten resume, but like if I want resumes, I want them digitally because that's the workflow, right? Like if I'm having, if I've got a job posting and somebody mails me a handwritten resume instead of emailing me their pages or word files, like, well, now I have to do something with this, right? There's no links I can click. There's no information I can copy and paste, right? Like this becomes a whole big thing. So I don't know. I don't think I would want that. What would you, I mean, I'm, I'm expecting you to say, oh, of course it would be the best way. Um, but we'll see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mostly agree with you because there's, there's the more I think about it, there's almost no way to do this right. One of two things is going to happen with a handwritten resume. It's either going to look too fancy or it's going to look too poor. There's very little sliver in the middle ground, right? If you were talking about, if someone sent me a resume and it was calligraphy based and had a wax seal on the envelope, I would not be impressed. I would be like, what is going on here? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's like you don't know how much work you've just given me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. It's the wrong place and time for that. Secondly, if you broke out a notebook and a BIC, it's going to maybe not look very nice. So I don't know, I don't know where the winning proposition is. If you're going to send a handwritten resume because you're making someone do more work, they're going to, you don't know what position they're in to like appreciate that, right? You're sending it blindly. Like, okay, if I'm hiring a writer at the pen addict and you send me a handwritten letter, well, that's one thing, you know, the person on the receiving end would be open to receiving that me in that case, right? I would like the calligraphy or I'd like the BIC on the notebook page. But if you're sending a general resume to most of the population, I think you're putting it in the hands of someone who could very likely treat that differently in a negative way than having an easier workflow, like you said. So yeah, like Stacey says in the chat room, maybe a thank you note, you know, after the interview handwritten, that's always a winner, right? But the resume itself, I think that's going to be such a minuscule shot at landing, at hitting a home run, right? That it's not going to be worth it to take that chance.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I don't think so. But then Doug goes on to say, what part of the job search could be best suited to fountain pens? Maybe a thank you note? Yes, that's where it works. You want to send someone a thank you note, a nice attractive thank you note? That's great. That would work.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And I wouldn't mind a cover letter that's handwritten, like if you're doing the cover letter thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, because I need less information from that one, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Unless someone, there are a lot of jobs that have very specific requirements for the cover letter. Maybe I wouldn't do that, but if it's a general cover letter introductory type thing. But the resume itself, I think it would, low chance of success. I think you're putting yourself in a hole doing that, to be perfectly honest.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, Myke. I'm glad I didn't have to write a resume after last week's episode where you tried to fire me. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you out of that one. So, but I'm glad to be back this week. As always, it's felt like a month since we've last recorded. And, you know, I'm always nervous getting right back in. Oh, you're a natural. What seems, no, no, no, I know. But like always at the beginning, I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, now we're good. Once we start. So, all good. Good to be back on the regular schedule, which I think we will be for the rest of this year. It seems. I don't know. I think there are thereabouts. Next month.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. We have some. It's going to be normal for everybody else.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you want to find our show notes, you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 280. Remember 280, the popular dance phrase. You can send in your tweets to the hashtag AskTPA. Don't forget the stationary.wiki, which is the great wiki project where you can go in and update information for this whole great community that we're a part of. You can find Brad over at thepenaddict.com and knock.co. How's the seed stuff going, Brad?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, it's going real good. The A6s, both colors, are ready to roll. We're probably delayed on A5 until we can get the new colors of Brasstown and Sinclair's out for the holidays. So, that's our focus right now. All the A6 stuff is ready for you to buy, though.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You bet. When is the, when am I going to get the travel? Is that part of the A5 delay?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's part of the A5 delay. So, we're probably, I doubt it will be before the holidays.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Womp, womp, womp.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is. Trust me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, no one feels the womp, womp as much as you do. Yeah. You can also find Brad on Pen Addict. He is, no, Instagram. He's Pen Addict on Instagram. He's not Instagram on Pen Addict. He's Pen Addict on Instagram and he's dowdyism on Twitter. I'm imike. I am YKE. Thanks so much to Pen Chalet for their kind sponsorship and support for this episode. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad. I'm going to go ahead.

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