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Filip 12-02-2005 12:04 PM

Re: Poker on Resume....the real reason for asking
 
Should i instead say that i was living on social welfare, of my parents or in a mental asylum? I cant even see the connection to bragging.

DcifrThs 12-02-2005 02:15 PM

Re: Poker on Resume....the real reason for asking
 
this post says more about you than those you are attempting to analyze.

Barron

tek 12-02-2005 06:32 PM

Re: Poker on Resume....the real reason for asking
 
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Not luckily for me... I keep hearing these reports on the fox news channel of her coercing young interns for oral sex.

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I hope she uses Summer's Eve [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

slim 12-03-2005 09:38 AM

not disagreeing
 
Hey, I already mentioned in my original post that my reason for putting poker on my resume would be bc of egotistical reasons so I won't disagree. But I still think I am right for the most part. Here is why....the interviewer is either going to be :
1)a Non-Poker player: in which case he/she will not care or frown upon your poker exploits
2)a Poker player/enthusiast: in which case you guys will obviously start discussing poker strategy and/or how well you each do at poker.

Tell me how that's wrong.

jrbick 12-03-2005 11:21 AM

Re: not disagreeing
 
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Hey, I already mentioned in my original post that my reason for putting poker on my resume would be bc of egotistical reasons so I won't disagree. But I still think I am right for the most part. Here is why....the interviewer is either going to be :
1)a Non-Poker player: in which case he/she will not care or frown upon your poker exploits
2)a Poker player/enthusiast: in which case you guys will obviously start discussing poker strategy and/or how well you each do at poker.

Tell me how that's wrong.

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Well, #1 is what we're all trying to figure out. That actually hasn't been determined yet (as far as I know); how the employer will perceive poker playing.

#2 is merely conveivable. If I'm there for a job interview and the employer plays poker as well, then my guess is that it would stop at that: "we're both poker players" <smile>. I'm pretty sure that if I'm being interviewed that I'll just keep, being interviewed. Anything less seems like it'd be kind of unprofessional.

I understand though, that looking at this from your angle, that if both people have the problem of ego and both have that desire to indulge in ego, then the result would be standard. I'm just not sure that you're going to be able to find that your premiss is absolute. Well, I'm pretty sure.

slim 12-04-2005 01:19 AM

Re: not disagreeing
 
If the interviewer is not a poker player, there ain't no way in hell he will say "Yes I admire your poker playing abilities because I hear that you have to have great analytical skills to play poker well"........he will either think nothing of it and not even notice it (in which case there was no reason to put it in) or he will think you are a degenerate.

BigBaitsim (milo) 12-04-2005 07:45 PM

Re: Poker on Resume....the real reason for asking
 
I would not hire someone who played poker for a living, unless I knew them very well already. Put it on your resume, and I'll shitcan it on receipt.

Zele 12-04-2005 08:38 PM

Re: Poker on Resume....the real reason for asking
 
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If you are applying to Susquehanna trading near the burbs of Philly it is +EV, otherwise forget it.

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I have a hunch their office games are weak-tight city.

MarkD 12-04-2005 10:16 PM

Re: Poker on Resume....the real reason for asking
 
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I would not hire someone who played poker for a living, unless I knew them very well already. Put it on your resume, and I'll shitcan it on receipt.

[/ QUOTE ]

Why?

jrbick 12-05-2005 07:58 PM

Re: not disagreeing
 
Sure, you may be right about that. But I was answering this claim:

[ QUOTE ]
1)a Non-Poker player: in which case he/she will not care or frown upon your poker exploits

[/ QUOTE ]

We don't know if they will "care" or not or if they will "frown" on it or not. Milo suggests that they will care and that they will frown.


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