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Re: Fw: Resume land mines (was For those who hire... what makes ares ume stand out)
Subject:Re: Fw: Resume land mines (was For those who hire... what makes ares ume stand out) From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 15 Jul 2001 05:46:18 -0700 (PDT)
I'd stay away from that. Resumes are used in multiple way, not just
read by live people, They might be scanned for inclusion in a
database by some of the larger agencies and HR departments and
changing the layout could have an impact on that.
--- Paul Sinasohn <sinasohn -at- sendmail -dot- com> wrote:
> You mean yours is 4 pages?? wow.
>
> I'm seriously thinking of going to a folded 11x17 'brochure' type
> of
> document printed on both sides. I've seen one like it before - the
> advantage is that pages won't get lost. But it is a non-standard
> format,
> and I'm not sure how it would be received by HR or managers.....
=====
John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
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