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Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea
Subject:Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:19:50 -0700
The key phrase here is "genuinely meaningful and pertinent information."
If you've been doing essentially the same job for 10 years but have had a
dozen or more employers or major contract clients, does pasting the same
description of your responsibilities in a dozen times meet that
description? Does every page of your 10-page resume leave the reader
yearning to turn the page to see what comes next? I've yet to see one that
had that effect on me.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Porrello, Leonard <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>wrote:
> While I think "keep it to two pages" is probably good advice in general, I
> don't agree that a senior tech writer should be able to squeeze, say, five
> pages of genuinely meaningful and pertinent information into two pages..
>
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