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Subject:RE: Onlin résumés and other handshakes? From:"Trese, Timothy G." <Timothy -dot- G -dot- Trese -at- SAICSeals -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:57:48 -0500
I have to laugh about this. I try to generate a custom resume for every
well-qualified prospective employer. My personal running joke with
myself is that I won't find the last error until I'm sitting in the
prospect's lobby cooling my heels before the interview. So now, when I'm
checked in and waiting to be called in, instead of reading the
six-month-old trade journals on the table, I amuse myself by playing
"Spot the Last Typo on the Resume." I have never lost at this game.
Yes, I do proofread carefully, with the eagle-eyes of a former
copyreader for a commercial printer, where big money can be at stake. I
take some solace in the fact that I've never yet found TWO typos on one
of my submitted resumes. But there's always the one that gets by me.
In truth, I guess I regard this as acceptable losses for purposes of a
resume. I am careful, and any editing beyond what I now do is out in the
nether-realm of diminishing returns on time invested. I consider that
time spent generating carefully targetted content is WAY more important
than finding that last typo.
I've never had a prospective employer bring the typo on my resume to my
attention. Maybe they were being polite, but I think it more likely that
they missed it, too. And I have to say that, if a resume was on target
and an interview felt good, and I didn't get job because of typo...
Well, my attitude would be that employer and I are not a good fit
anyway.
Tim Trese
Documentation Specialist
SAIC-SEALS
321-779-7914
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