Re: Tips on Getting Hired

[Ami WRIGHT <ami -at- ziplink -dot- net>]

Beth, I didn't mean that cover letters aren't important. Your question was:
"what was your experience with the cover letters that came with those long
resumes?"

In order to tell you about the cover letters that came with the long
resumes, I'd have to go look them up. I'm not going to do that, because I
don't have time for that discussion right now. I'm about to give up on this
one, and I started it.

John, I'm not round-filing long resumes without reading them. I'm reading
them. My advice is don't send a 5-page resume because they have been
universally awful.  

Since you haven't applied for the position, I haven't read your resume, but
based on what you've said, I think that if you read our job posting and
targeted your resume to our position, you could safely edit out some things
that we wouldn't care about anyway.

Laura, "extremely skilled ediitor" is very funny. The stuff I've been
seeing has been more tedious than funny.


And if what you?re doing is working for you, great, do more of it. But if
you?re sending out resumes, and you?re not hearing anything: edit, edit, edit

-Ami


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