hey guys,
im totally undecided about where to go and what to do. recently ive been looking at all the business cards I have and some are far better, heavier - think the scene from amer pyscho- than others. some look ridiculous, I have one that has the colors of the flag.
is there any merit in judging a firm by the sophistication of its business cards?
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Patrick Jr., Is that you? How's your father?
No - example: BX has really shit business cards
haha, sounds ridiculous but then again you never know. also, this would depend heavily on your ability to judge the quality of business cards... how well can you distinguish the cheap stuff from the real deal?
i think a more effective alternative is to filter lesser known firms by the quality of their website. if it looks like their site was put together by a middle-school student in 1994, then it's likely that the firm cares little for its image. just as most companies wont want their employees representing them poorly by wearing dirty and wrinkled clothes to work, i wouldn't want my company representing me poorly with a crap website.
back when i was applying to lesser-known regional boutiques, i would avoid firms that had shitty websites as a rule of thumb.
I take it you won't be working at Berkshire Hathaway or Allen & Co.
So you would probably choose to work for these places first:
http://mylifescoop.com/featured-stories/2011/02/34-incredibly-awesome-b…
[quote=LIBOR]So you would probably choose to work for these places first:
http://mylifescoop.com/featured-stories/2011/02/34-incredibly-awesome-b…]
Very cool link LIBs. That being said, the site's commentary on each card makes me want to kill a bunch of puppies.
ive come to the conclusion that you are an enormous troll. im surprised you haven't been called out on this yet with all of your absolutely ridiculous questions...
Myself along with two others called him out on it yesterday.
berkshire or allen could have tubgirl as their website and would still attract top talent. i was referring to relatively unknown companies.
hahaha the other day i was just talking friends about judging firms based on their freebies i.e. pens for the most part.
Nah, I've worked at some tiny companies that had really badass business cards, but they're not places I would realistically ever want to go back to.
the way resume screening works at my firm is that we take a pile of 200 resumes, then put a fan infront
the resumes that remain get 1st round
what about judging banks based on the types of buildings they own?
Did this last week. Had an MS, GS, CS, SocGen, old Dresdner Kleinwort and Greenhill card.
Top of the pile was MS, then I would say GS (MS has embossed lettering and high quality paper, GS has embossed logo and high quality paper), next would be Greenhill for quality of paper (not embossed). Old DK card had embossed logo but lower quality paper than first three. CS and SocGen were of the same quality and didn't stack up well.... You would argue that, apart from the MS / GS ranking perhaps, the business cards tie in well with where you would want to work right? (DK is an anomaly, they carried through the history of being very very strong in the 70s / 80s / early 90s)
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