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Subject:RE: I just got one of those resumes From:"Darren Barefoot" <darren -dot- barefoot -at- capeclear -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:58:48 -0000
Ms. Bissell wrote...
>
>
> Not to nit-pick here, but he doesn't call himself a Word
> expert. He calls himself a Microsoft Office expert. Perhaps
> he uses the entire Word suite expertly, except Word because
> he uses an alternate tool for those jobs. What other tools
> does he list? Do others on his tool list indicate a minimal
> need for Word?
Well, that's a bit like my saying, "I'm a driving expert. I can expertly
steer, accelerate, shift gears and parallel park. I'm just c**p at
braking."
If he's not an expert in all the Office products, he shouldn't say he's
an expert in the suite. Besides, it carries much more clout with me to
say "I'm an expert in MS Access and Excel and experienced with MS Word"
(or, better yet, "I've created large and complicated databases in MS
Access and am a pivot table guru in MS Excel") than to say "I'm a
Microsoft Office expert". The term "expert" is pretty relative. As the
saying goes, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is expert. Or
something like that. DB.
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