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Subject:Re: Limited Experience on Resumes From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 9 Nov 1994 13:53:07 CST
Mike Christie writes:
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My own personal strategy on this sort of thing is to either leave
them off the resume entirely, or put them at the very bottom of
my ``tools'' list. If there is a specific mention of it in the
job posting, I will mention my experience in the cover letter.
Granted, this may get discarded long before anyone with any decision
making power ever sees it, but I ended up on a couple of interviews
where the only reason I was called was because I listed Adobe
Illustrator and Aldus Freehand so they thought I was an illustrator.
I can do some reasonably passable illustrations in those packages,
but I'm no illustrator. Wastes my time, wastes their time, why
bother?
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