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One example of abuse of styles I found in a resume was where someone's list
of tools was in different fonts and weights, because they'd clearly copied
and pasted in keywords from a variety of different sources and not cleaned
it up. This was for an applicant who claimed "a proven record as a
editor." But their resume said otherwise. As far as recruiters
reformatting your resume? If they copy and paste into a template, it
shouldn't add any inline formatting. Use of styles is not my only criteria
for hiring, but it does give me an indication of whether or not inline
formatting is one of your bad habits.
To add some something else to the discussion, another skill that seems like
not everyone has (based on the amount of cleanup I end up doing in legacy
projects) is how to write task based documentation. (vs. organizing around
the user interface. "Using the Admin tab.")
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:26 PM, William Sherman <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
wrote:
> I guess you'd never hire me, then. Of course, my resume isn't pretty. It
> is just dozens of three line paragraphs describing each job. There is no
> point to styles, as they can all be the same. The only difference is name
> and address at the top.
>
> And you do realize that unless you get the resume directly from the
> person, anything from a recruiter or agency has been reformatted to who
> knows what level. I've seen some of mine submitted that didn't look
> anything like my original.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Stickler" <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
> To: "TECHWR-L Digest" <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:28 AM
>
> Subject: Re: What folks today don't know...!
>
>
> My number one pet peeve, for both novice and experienced users, is people
>> who do not know how to use styles and use inline formatting instead. In
>> fact, the last time I was looking to hire a TW, I checked the Word files
>> for every resume that I got in Word and weeded out any candidate who did
>> not use styles in their resume. When you're single sourcing PDF and
>> online
>> Help that gets viewed on three or four different browser platforms, you
>> HAVE to use your stylesheet correctly if you want your output to look
>> professional. I don't have time to hover over your shoulder and break
>> your
>> bad habit of not using styles properly if you don't already know.
>>
>>
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