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I put a $58k salary in my resume draft and almost lost a real offer in Cincinnati
I was sitting in my car outside a Panera in Cincinnati typing up my resume the night before a big interview, and I bumped a number in the salary section from $54k to $58k just to see how it looked. I saved the wrong version and sent that exact file to the recruiter the next morning, and she called me out on it during the screening. Now I keep two separate files with a clear name and never edit numbers at night. Anyone else almost blow an offer over a careless typo?
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troy_butler79h ago
Yikes, that Panera parking lot almost ate your whole offer. I once fat fingered my start date to a year in the future and the recruiter asked if I was a time traveler. The worst part is you were just messing around with the number, not even lying, and it still almost sank you. Lesson learned the hard way, keep the real file locked and only open the fun version at like noon. Two files with clear names is the move for sure.
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