Re: Boilerplate resume items for otherwise uninspiring jobs

["Mitchell Maltenfort" <mmalten -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Collected and tallied fiscal obligations for a small business.
>>
>> Managed and secured deposits.
>
> If I were hiring retail clerks, I'd toss the resume that said that,
> muttering "Who are you trying to snow with that pompous BS?"
>
> I'd schedule an interview for the one that said "Operated a cash
> register, counted, and closed out the drawer at the end of the night."
>
> But maybe that's just me. :-)
>

That's also just retail jobs.  The original post said for _any_ job,
and something accurate without puffery.

I admit to flexing, posing, posturing, and preening, but not puffery.


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