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Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea
Subject:Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> Date:Wed, 5 Sep 2012 08:56:34 -0700
It's not all that unusual for managers to circulate copies of applicants'
resumes to subordinates for input, or to assign subordinates to screen
resumes. One of the potential pitfalls of having "fun" with your resume is
that you can never really be sure how many people are going to review it.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Yeah. So much for the expectation of confidentiality in job
> applications. I was shown a handful of "best examples" of the worst in
> my early days as a junior writer.
>
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