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Subject:Re: Re. Resume vs. CV? From:Rick Lippincott <rjl -at- BOSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 29 Dec 1995 12:12:08 EST
Geoff Hart said (concerning resume length):
>If your career spans
>30 years, drop the last half dozen jobs if necessary...
My method is to list employment going back about ten years (obviously if
that "ten years" lands in the middle of my tenure at another company, I
list the whole range of employement dates for that company).
What are other people doing?
Rick Lippincott
Boston Technolgy
Wakefield, MA
rjl -at- bostech -dot- com
