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Subject:Re: Resume Revision From:Laurence Burrows <burrows -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:41:40 +1100
Robert Plamondon wrote:
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Yet I've heard at least one person on this group say that he would reject a
resume with a fax header that indicated that it was sent from an employer,
on the grounds that the sender obviously lacked ethics. Furthermore, many
people who are self-employed, or who have spouses who are self-employed,
will fax their resumes from a home office. These resumes will appear with
a corporate fax header at the top, which may well fool such managers.
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Nope...I'm not that easily fooled.
Smart applicants enclose a cover note or the relevant parts of the company
lay-off policy letter that authorized them to use the company stationary.
This proactive approach tells me that they see the connection between their
actions and the consequences...making them the sort of people I want to hire.
Conversley, those who can't anticipate my probable negative reaction are
probably too dumb for me to bother about interviewing.
