RE: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote: 
 
> if this is 
> what we get in response to a short and narrowly targeted job 
> description, what will we get from this person when we want a 
> short and narrowly targeted document?

Bingo! That's precisely the question that some of us would ask. 

But not all. And maybe that's one reason 5+-page resumes work for some
people: those long resumes successfully target the people not looking
for short and narrowly targeted docs -- people who may even be turned
off by short and narrowly targeted docs.

Maybe resume length is a discriminator that efficiently matches
positions and applicants along an important axis of compatibility. 

Maybe "It depends" is the right answer after all. ;-)

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
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Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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