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Subject:Re: using a slogan on a resume From:"Bruce Wolf" <bwolf -at- scheidt-bachmann-usa -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:59:10 -0500
I may put
"Have Gun, Will Travel"
on mine.
Been used before, but it has a ring to it.
;-)
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From: "Mark L. Levinson" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: using a slogan on a resume
>
> > Has anybody else tried this approach?
>
> At the top of my resume is the following quotation:
>
> "Mark L. Levinson ... seems effortlessly to impart exuberance,
> verbal elegance, and intelligence to any subject he touches."
> - Haim Chertok, writing in Ariel Quarterly
>
> I wanted my resume to show some uniqueness and to emphasize
> my strengths, and I figured that by leading with such a
> quotation I accomplished both. Not many technical writers
> draw such comments in literary quarterlies. But then, not
> many hi-tech managers know what to make of such a boast.
> I figured they'd ask, but they seldom do.
>
>
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