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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:Steve Schwarzman <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com> To:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> Date:Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:27:34 -0400
It's hard to imagine a tech writing position for which a couple of pages,
maybe three max, isn't enough detail to get you in the door.
That said, recruiters/HR first screeners do search by keywords. As a human
reader, I'm not offended by a paragraph at the end of an otherwise
human-oriented resume called Keywords, listing software, industries,
customers, etc. You can probably keep the body of the resume shorter by
moving the relevant words to such a section.
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