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Re: What folks today don't know...!

Subject: Re: What folks today don't know...!
From: "William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L Digest" <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 23:30:44 -0400

For good or bad, I seem to get access to many of the resumes of people who were not hired when I was and those that come after, usually because they would like me to pick out additional candidates.

What I have seen appears that some recruiters will paste special to past text only in some blocks and forget in others. Occasionally, they seem to reformat since material doesn't fit in where they want it. I've seen them rewrite them. I've seen them reorganize and move parts around. But basically, if you spend a lot of time to make yours look good, odds are what arrives through an agency, shop, or recruiter may have a very different look.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Stickler" <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L Digest" <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: What folks today don't know...!


One example of abuse of styles I found in a resume was where someone's list
of tools was in different fonts and weights, because they'd clearly copied
and pasted in keywords from a variety of different sources and not cleaned
it up. This was for an applicant who claimed "a proven record as a
editor." But their resume said otherwise. As far as recruiters
reformatting your resume? If they copy and paste into a template, it
shouldn't add any inline formatting. Use of styles is not my only criteria
for hiring, but it does give me an indication of whether or not inline
formatting is one of your bad habits.

To add some something else to the discussion, another skill that seems like
not everyone has (based on the amount of cleanup I end up doing in legacy
projects) is how to write task based documentation. (vs. organizing around
the user interface. "Using the Admin tab.")




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Re: What folks today don't know...!: From: Julie Stickler
Re: What folks today don't know...!: From: William Sherman
Re: What folks today don't know...!: From: Julie Stickler

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