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> When I was hiring writers, I wanted to see their actual resumes, not
> the damaged second-generation dreck that the agencies generated. This
> always surprised the people at the agencies, who had never heard of such a
> thing.
>
> Yet many tech writing managers state proudly that they will not
> interview someone whose resume contains errors. I'm forced to assume that
> these managers are complacently rejecting perfectly good writers on the
> basis of resumes that are the work of a third party.
A couple of years ago, I attended a resume workshop with a gentleman whose
job was to fancy up the resumes given to his agency before passing them on to
employers. HIS OWN RESUME, which he passed out as an example of a
good one, had a glaring grammatical error in it. So I learned something at the
workshop, but maybe not what he expected!
