Re: Resumes for Technical Communicators

Subject: Re: Resumes for Technical Communicators
From: Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 15:13:00 PST

At 2:42 PM 3/10/95 -0500, Herman Holtz wrote:

>In my opinion, a cover letter is a waste of time. If you have something
>more to say, why did you not say it in your resume and refrain from
>wasting a busy executive's time reading yet another piece of paper? (As
>that busy exective with a desktopful of resumes, that was my reaction.)
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IMHO the resume should be customized for a particular *type or level* of
job; (you might have different resumes for doc manager and tech writier
positions), but, the cover letter is where you customize the package for
that particular job.

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M_a_r_c_ A. _S_a_n_t_a_c_r_o_c_e_________________________
Technical Writer/Trainer TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
300 Lakeside Dr. Oakland, CA 94612-3540
santa -at- tfs -dot- com santacroce -at- aol -dot- com

"Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six"


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