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Re: Comment from a headhunting company

Subject: Re: Comment from a headhunting company
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:15:59 -0800


Bonnie Granat wrote:

A friend tells me that a headhunting company representative told him
that his resume should talk not about what he has accomplished in the
past but what he can do in the future. This person decided not to
spend the money on the company's services, by the way.

Sounds odd to me. I personally cannot see the sense in that, except if
one were to write a resume that's really a sales brochure.

In many ways, a resume is a specialized sales brochure.

I suspect that what the headhunter was trying to get across is that a resume should show how you can be useful to the company where you are applying. I've taken this advice, and, for each job listed on my resume, I now have several different descriptions. Each description is true, but each emphasizes different aspects of the job.

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