The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151041   Message #3522085
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
02-Jun-13 - 10:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Argggh! Building a new resume
Subject: RE: BS: Argggh! Building a new resume
I can't offer much, but...

To avoid awkwardness about bragging about yourself, write in the 3rd person. That's what I've read, anyhow.

Put it on colored paper, if submitting by mail. Subtle and tasteful, mind you. My husband got his first job because a harried HR person looked idly at the stack of paper in his inbox and asked himself, "What's this blue thing?" It was the DH's resume.

Ideas I heard from the HR Director of Proctor and Gamble about job interviews:

Get your hair styled and your teeth cleaned.

When you are interviewed, smile. The interviewer will then picture you working about the place, smiling.

You'll be nervous, but so will the interviewer. The interviewer is responsible if you turn out to be no good.
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I've been looking at your post. It seems to me that the style is too complicated. Sentences are too long, words are too big. Today's mid-managers don't want to read something that hard. It's harder to read online than it is on paper, as well.