Interviewing - On The Other Side

After 15 years, I am for the first time on the other side of interviewing.
I've always been the one being interviewed but now I'm the one doing the interviewing.

I was nervous at first but when the first applicant came in, I got right down to business.

And I'll tell you what, some of these people are full of crap. The things that are said is ridiculous. The job was for a data entry position. For me personally, that doesn't seem like a very hard job. But, I guess it can be. Especially if, (1) you're not detail oriented, (2) you can't really use the computer, and (3) you can't type.

We had all applicants do an excel spreadsheet. We gave them all an instruction sheet along with things that needed to be entered into the spreadsheet. Out of the 6 applicants, only one person did the spreadsheet exactly the way the finished product should look like. That was unbelievable to me because everyone bragged on their resume about their data entry experience and their knowledge of excel.

So people, don't put down things on your resume that you know for a fact is not true. It does no good to put excel down as one of your skills and you don't even know how to go into page setup/page preview and formatting their spreadsheet so that all information is on one page. Also, if you're doing a spreadsheet and if you really know anything about excel and word, then why would you put the address, city, state, and zip all in the same cell. Anyone that really knows would give each it's own cell for when you have to sort or even do a word merge for labels or envelopes.

I'm glad it's all over for now and hopefully things will work out with the one applicant that had a good interview and an excellent spreadsheet.