Re: pronouns in resumes

[Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Regardless of her qualifications, I'm a skeptic. I agree that the referenced
phrases are bollocks, but the paragraph below is ill-advised, IMHO.

       > Chris

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Erik Hare <wabbitoid47 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

>
> To dig up an old thread:
>
> Resume writing very much moves as a kind of fashion.  The advice to purge
> all pronouns from your resume may well be the right advice in some areas,
> but the general fashion trend is towards the personal:
>
> "You don't have to write resumes that sound like robots wrote them. A
> human-voiced resume is the new black -- try it!"
>
>
> http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-experts-10_boilerplate_phrases_that_kill_resumes-97
>
> Erik Hare
> http://erikhare.wordpress.com/
>
>
> --- On Wed, 6/17/09, Janet Swisher <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > From: Janet Swisher <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>
> > Subject: Re: pronouns in resumes
> > To: "Erik Hare" <wabbitoid47 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> > Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> > Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 10:29 PM
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM,
> > Erik Hare <wabbitoid47 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: Combs, Richard
> > <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
> >
> >
> >
> > > I dislike both those options. Eons ago, I was taught
> > to
> >
> > > write experience
> >
> > > descriptions using sentences with an implied subject
> > (I):
> >
> >
> >
> > Isn't an implied subject a form of passive
> > voice?
> > No, it's not. "Leaped tall buildings" is
> > still active, even without an explicit subject. Passive
> > voice would be "Tall buildings were leaped". Nor
> > is the use of an implied subject an attempt to avoid agency.
> > The agent is clear from context.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Visit my blog at: http://www.janetswisher.com
> >
> >
> >
>
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