Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea

Subject: Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea
From: Steve Schwarzman <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com>
To: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:27:34 -0400

It's hard to imagine a tech writing position for which a couple of pages,
maybe three max, isn't enough detail to get you in the door.

That said, recruiters/HR first screeners do search by keywords. As a human
reader, I'm not offended by a paragraph at the end of an otherwise
human-oriented resume called Keywords, listing software, industries,
customers, etc. You can probably keep the body of the resume shorter by
moving the relevant words to such a section.

Steve Schwarzman
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