RE: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

You should still bring a copy of your 'real' resume because the recruiters
will change them into something that either doesn't make sense or is simply
wrong.  I had one 're-format' my resume to change everything to bullet
points, including the introductory summaries (job summaries were popular
then), so it really read wrong.  I had my copy and was able to save the
interview and get the job.  I have also had recruiters change content.  I
sell myself as a well-organized writer and my resume is a primary indicator
of my writing ability, so when a recruiter changes it into something
confusing, I lose. I would rather risk making the recruiter look bad than to
complacently let the recruiter make me look bad.

My dos centavos.

Lauren

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Kim-Eng
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:29 PM
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Subject: Re: Getting Hired...Opinion #2500

Carrying a bunch of extra resumes in case you needed to hand them out to
interviewers used to be another one of the basic guidelines of preparing for
interviews. 
Don't tell me that's another "basic guideline" that has joined the list of
things that "new age jobhunters" think are outdated thinking as they insist
on trying to tackle the workforce on their own terms.

I wonder if this is a factor in Nancy's observation on her perceived dearth
of younger tech writers...

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Milan Davidovic" <shl_ctf -at- yahoo -dot- ca>

> The advice I heard was to bring your own copies to the interview in 
> case something was altered.

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