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""Dan Hall"" <dhall -at- san-carlos -dot- rms -dot- slb -dot- com> wrote in message
news:<NFBBJKJDAKGKCLKEIANPIEKOCOAA -dot- dhall -at- san-carlos -dot- rms -dot- slb -dot- com>...
> I have to agree with Laura here.
>
> If you've got enough time to sit around fiddling fonts (nod to AP) and
> styles for your resume, you're wasting time in my book. That would be
> like spending an hour formatting an HTML e-mail. Since resumes are
> intended for _presentation_, rather than sustainability or uniformity,
> designing styles for them seems like overkill.
>
> My question: If you've got enough time to scrutinize resumes for
> styles (how much time is spent on this?) do you really need another
> writer?
>
> I too am surprised to find that there are folks out there checking
> resumes for styles. Frankly, someone who's picking those nits isn't
> someone I'd be interested in working with.
FWIW, all (and I mean ALL) of the recruiters I have worked with say that
if I list Word as one of my skills, they WILL examine my resume with all
the formatting marks visible to see if I have used styles correctly, and
to see if I have used the space bar or the carriage return when I might
have achieved the same result with a style.
These recruiters tell me, unanimously, that failure to do so will indeed
mark a candidate down.
I appreciate that others' experiences might be different, and I would
not say them nay, but here in MS territory, I go with the flow, and by
doing so, I add another tool to my kit.
--
Ivan Weiss http://www.nwguild.org
Vashon WA http://www.unionrecord.com
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