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>I worked for a consulting firm who, in their ultimate wisdom, took my well
>formatted, informative, carefully considered resume and retyped it into
>"their" format. This revised resume was ugly, had misspellings, and looked
>like everyone else's resume. They also faxed it to their customers. While
>working offsite for this consulting firm, I was priviliged to hear my
>supervisor say the same thing. Resumes from this consulting firm were
>uniformly ugly.
I forgot to mention that I tell any agencies I'm working with that
I want to see the writer's own resume, not their rewritten version,
because I use it as a writing sample. They sigh and comply.
