Recommendation Caution to PNM's

[TexasDarling]

Originally Posted by Zillini

I am not the one who normally picks up mail from the Post Office, but due to circumstances I did. Wanting to help our Rec Committee I sat and opened all the envelopes and sorted through them. Literally 4+ hours just opening envelopes for less then a week's worth of mail. That's Bama Recruitment for you.

Anyways, my personal tips for PNM resumes based off this:

- DO NOT PUT GLITTER ON YOUR RESUME OR IN THE ENVELOPE! (Did I emphasize that enough?) Yes this will "set you a part" from the crowd, but not in a good way. You have no idea how annoying it was to have to vacuum my couch and carpet because of these creative PNMs.

- Don't bother with putting ribbons or gluing jewels on your resume. For a Chapter that receives massive quantities of Recs, they usually get sorted, placed into things like page protectors and then into 3 ring binders. Those baubles take up a lot of space and make it difficult to flip the pages of your Rec and resume.

- Don't print your resume on vellum paper. It may look very pretty to start with, but it is not durable. Remember you want a lot of people looking at your resume and it needs to hold up. Even newly received resumes didn't look that great with creases when an alumna folded it to fit into a standard mailing envelope.

- If you are going to print your own photos that's fine, but please invest in some photo weight paper. It is not that expensive. Alumnae may fold their Recs, the Post Office may bend your envelope, etc. Photo weight paper holds up far better than regular printer paper. Again remember these need to withstand a lot of manipulation and viewing.

- Make sure your resume is easy to read. Don't print with barely visible light colored ink (light lavender, pink, and yellow are the worst). Don't use super dark paper (crimson red for Alabama seems to be somewhat popular). Don't choose a super swirly script font. Wow, I practically went blind trying to read some of these and finally gave up. It's not good if someone stops reading your resume because it hurts their eyes.

It boils down to this, it is far better to impress the Chapter with the content of your resume than funky creativity.

I corresponded with my area panhellenic all by email. So the whole glitter thing was out of the question anyway...but I can't understand why anyone would do that?

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by TexasDarling

I corresponded with my area panhellenic all by email. So the whole glitter thing was out of the question anyway...but I can't understand why anyone would do that?

PNMs think it will get them noticed by the chapters. But it ends up looking silly and dumb (as Zillini noted).

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

PNMs think it will get them noticed by the chapters. But it ends up looking silly and dumb (as Zillini noted).

Oh they get noticed, for all the wrong reasons.