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Subject:Re: Resume Revision From:Win Day <winday -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Oct 1998 23:18:11 -0500
At 11:22 AM 10/27/98 -0800, Barbara Karst-Sabin wrote:
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> All agencies revise resumes in order to delete your contact info so
> there's no way an employer can go around them to get to you, but most of
> them (I assume) are pretty careful. Others feel that they know the
> "perfect" resume format and have a group of people who do nothing but
> reformat resumes for them. That's where the trouble comes in. Those
> people have no stake in your job future.
Jeepers, I must be contracting through the last of the ethical agencies!
They most certainly did NOT reformat my resume. They forwarded it on to the
client exactly as I sent it. I know; I saw it on the project manager's desk
during the interview.
