lifeclever.com — So you?ve labored with sweat and tears writing your r?sum?, and now you?re all set to turn it into a magnificently designed creation. Unfortunately, with the freedom of modern computers and fancy software, comes huge opportunities for abuse. When it comes to r?sum?s, both non-designers and professional designers commit some almost unforgivable sins
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loquitodanNov 27, 2007
Amen to that - I just went through about 25 resumes hiring for a position intended for someone just out of colllege up to 2 yrs experience. For no reason should the resume be longer than 1 page unless you've got a list of published articles!!I heard somewhere - take the # of years you've been working and divide by 5, rounding up. Don't make your resume longer than that.
shawnzNov 27, 2007
let me dumb it down for moose: neither are english.
rdolishnyNov 27, 2007
Didn't the use of the accented 'é' become pretentious and highbrow?
muffinmanpooNov 28, 2007
Your mum's pretentious and highbrow.
aduzikNov 28, 2007
The university I went to used Word Art on the side of their Public Safety cars. Nothing made me feel safer than an unarmed cop wannabe sitting in a car with purple text in a rainbow-arc with a shadow behind it to make it look like the words are standing up. They did eventually repaint the cars and mercifully voted *not* to give them guns or tasers.
mikecxDec 4, 2007
All good and valid points. It wasn't an immediate disqualification on any of those points but when you see "To obtain a job in my field doing exciting work and gain knowledge" more than 5 times, well you start to want to stab people. L0g1X has it pretty much entirely correct as far as what I was getting to. You can have a nice resume that breaks all of the standard rules just make sure it looks good and looks like you put time into it. The only other tidbit I'd like to add is that unless it's well written, leave the objective statement out. The company usually knows that you want a job in the field you studied, they know you want it to be exciting or fulfilling or whatnot, and they hope already that you want to learn something from the job. If it goes beyond that and helps them to understand you and how you'd be great for the position, by all means put it in there. Showing who you really are is the best idea.
stevemaxDec 4, 2007
That's "very short and very fat" for the metric impaired :)