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> The employment application process consists of 4 parts:
> 1 - The resume: a general, comprehensive history
> 2 - The letter of application: this is what relates to a specific job
> 3 - The interview: if you're lucky, good, or both
> 4 - The application form.
[snip]
> The letter of application should contain five standard blocks of
> information:
> 1 - personal
> 2 - education
> 3 - work experience
> 4 - references - though not usually included, can be inserted as filler
> 5 - publications.
Len--
The LoA covers a lot of what's in _my_ RESUME. What, then, do you put
in the resume? Where does "a general, comprehensive history" leave off
and 'personal/education/work_experience/[references]/publications' begin?
--ghaas -at- informix -dot- com Der Zustand der gesamten menschlichen Moral
Guy K. Haas laesst sich in zwei Saetzen zusammenfassen:
Informix Software Inc We ought to.
4100 Bohannon Dr. But we don't.
Menlo Park, CA 94025 --Kurt Tucholsky
[If I were speaking on behalf of Informix, I'd say so, *explicitly*.]
