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How To Write Your Resume And Why You Do It That Way

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First of all, there is no standard format for a resume. If you paid for a book of 1001 resume samples you may find one that you can clone to produce a halfway decent looking document, but remember that you and a few thousand other people own that book. If plagiarizing someone else’s resume is the best that you can do, then you may expect to be lumped with the other copycats in the discard… Read More »How To Write Your Resume And Why You Do It That Way

From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Sang the Resume Blues

Everybody places way too much emphasis on the resume. Everybody! Job seekers think that it is the ultimate ticket to a new job when it is really only a tool to get a foot in the door. On the receiving end, overly picky hiring managers have been known to disqualify candidates for perceived errors and overlook the fact that it is not a complete job history. How do these two opposing viewpoints get together other… Read More »From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Sang the Resume Blues

Stretch Your Resume, Not the Truth

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Answering the age old question about tailoring a resume to the job sounds good in theory until you try to do it. Obviously, hiring managers are looking for the right person for the job based on a variety of criteria and these change from company to company. Rather than be faced with an infinite number of varieties of job-matching resumes, most people will resort to the one-size-fits-all version. This is probably a pendulum swing toward… Read More »Stretch Your Resume, Not the Truth