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Posted by Paym Bergson Feb 15, 2007 |
As I often get a quick contract to screen for a large company's call to fill some sort of position, I have seen the gamut of "wanna-be attention getters" and some pieces of paper that should have come complete with the circular file. I've had cold pizza delivered with each slice covering a part of the portfolio (not a good plan, by the way - the sauce and oil contaminates the portfolio and there's nothing worse than cold pizza at 3 pm when you are wading through mounds of supposedly creative Resumes) and I've seen some promising Resumes that get chucked due to poor spelling, grammar and typos (Guess what? Paying attention to details means just that! If you can't pay attention to your own Resume, when you have all the time in the world to create and edit it, I shudder to think what you'll be like in a deadline situation!).
Your Resume gets subjected to a lot - often an independent (like me) gets the initial job of screening ALL Resumes into piles - and I summarize each pile with a list of good/bad/indifferent/etc. while making specific comments for each Resume (looks good but many typos; not enough experience but definitely worth the time for an interview). The employer then sets the task usually to internal employees to go over what I hand in and set up interviews - and guess what - I am again usually asked to help the employees with this task - do I think this one is good? Is this one true or should we do a quick investigation on work experience?
One thing I have noticed is that the Resumes with action have gotten further on this path than any others. Most get that elusive Interview (assuming the work is still accurate).
Bottom line - use the action to get into the action!
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