http://www.keppiecareers.com/2009/10/03/does-your-resume-need-to-grow-up/ Empowering Success Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.keppiecareers.com/2009/10/03/does-your-resume-need-to-grow-up/#comment-646 Updating Your Resume Style | Gradversity: Breaking Into The Entry Level Job Market Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:55:48 +0000 http://www.keppiecareers.com/?p=2983#comment-646 [...] the fastest way to get help in finding an Entry Level Job!Great post over at Keppie Careers called Does your resume need to grow up? It’s an eye opening piece about ensuring that your resume style is current enough to get [...] [...] the fastest way to get help in finding an Entry Level Job!Great post over at Keppie Careers called Does your resume need to grow up? It’s an eye opening piece about ensuring that your resume style is current enough to get [...]

]]> http://www.keppiecareers.com/2009/10/03/does-your-resume-need-to-grow-up/#comment-645 Jim Edwards Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:16:17 +0000 http://www.keppiecareers.com/?p=2983#comment-645 Resumes only became customary after World War II, as a means for employers to eliminate unqualified candidates among scores of GIs looking for new jobs. Not much has changed. Nowadays, nearly every individual, starting a job search, begins by developing a resume, but decision makers only spend and average of ten seconds scanning them. A resume cannot do the heavy lifting in a job search. Its purpose is strictly to function, in conjunction with a follow-up call, as a marketing tool to initiate a conversation with the decision maker. Your goal should be to present your background and accomplishments in a visually appealing, reverse chronological order, with dates, succinctly and honestly. Stay away from functional resumes, extensive formatting and leaving dates off to hide age. .-= Jim Edwards´s last blog ..<a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090825041445AAOrJiN" rel="nofollow">Resolved Question: Does anyone know the title and/or the author? (Answers: 1) (Comments: 0)</a> =-. Resumes only became customary after World War II, as a means for employers to eliminate unqualified candidates among scores of GIs looking for new jobs. Not much has changed. Nowadays, nearly every individual, starting a job search, begins by developing a resume, but decision makers only spend and average of ten seconds scanning them. A resume cannot do the heavy lifting in a job search. Its purpose is strictly to function, in conjunction with a follow-up call, as a marketing tool to initiate a conversation with the decision maker. Your goal should be to present your background and accomplishments in a visually appealing, reverse chronological order, with dates, succinctly and honestly. Stay away from functional resumes, extensive formatting and leaving dates off to hide age.
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