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Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea
Subject:Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea From:Milan Davidović <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> Date:Thu, 6 Sep 2012 12:21:43 -0400
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Lack of jobs, increased unemployment, shotgun approach to targeting resumes
> by desperate people who can't afford the time to design a warm fuzzy
> experience for every employer, as some of those resumes won't even be read.
I might be missing something in your answer: based on the arguments
presented, such resumes shouldn't even result in getting interviewed,
much less hired. But the very length of such resumes ("I received
several resumes that were 8-10 pages long, and included every contact
writing assignment they'd worked at for the last 20+ years") suggests
otherwise. How do you think that happens?
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