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Re: Tips on Getting Hired

Subject: Re: Tips on Getting Hired
From: Steven Jong <SteveFJong -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:27:30 -0500

--- Ami WRIGHT wrote:

Tip #1: Don't send a 5-page resume.

Resumes should be a maximum of two pages. If yours is five pages, it
suggests that you are overly wordy, and have trouble prioritizing and
organizing information.

... and John Posada asked:

Is this an opinion or do you know this for fact?

If the later, how?

Ami's tip is almost universally repeated by every headhunter, career counselor, and how-to-get-a-job book I've encountered. It also seems sensible.

In my personal experience, I've seen long resumes from people who have been at their jobs for many years. It lists every book they've ever written. The bibliographies were impressive, but if they wanted a job elsewhere, they didn't say 'I have 25 years of experience' so much as they said 'I have one year of experience 25 times over.'

So I agree with the tip 8^)

                -- Steve

Steven Jong ("Typo? What tpyo?")
Past President, STC Boston Chapter
stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net, 978-413-2553 [M]
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