Re: Having a killer resume
Wasn't a wasted experience, though. Gained some insight, and I was able to
help a friend. She'd been laid off, and part of the package was career
assistance with an outsourcing group who wanted her to redo her VERY nice
resume in guess what format! Fortunately, I was able to persuade her to
ignore their cookie-cutter format and use the one she already had, just
refined it a little.
Your comments emphasize the limits of any sort of outline. Quite possibly, the resume writers you encountered are suggesting a very sensible outline. However, they've clearly become too rigid about it.
To give what are probably self-evident truisms:
- The fact that one structure works doesn't mean that another one doesn't.
- Structure is essential,and often neglected, but you also need content. I suggest that the reason that most objective statements are ineffective isn't that the idea is bad - it's that most of them lack useful content. I don't know how many times I've seen people assume that, if they follow the structure for a document, and put something - anything - in the space where some content is needed, then they've done all they need. Not surprisingly,it's not that simple.
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