http://www.hireaustin.org/2009/07/7-common-sins-of-a-resume/ Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.hireaustin.org/2009/07/7-common-sins-of-a-resume/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Are you making the effort? : Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:26:50 +0000 http://www.hireaustin.org/?p=311#comment-28 [...] Let’s start with one of my favorite topics, the resume.  When is the last time you seriously looked at your resume to see what you can do to improve it?  Your resume is a living document.  It can always stand room for improvement.  Very few people have exemplary resumes.  Why is this?  I think it is because a resume must be about selling yourself and few people are naturally good at this.  Selling yourself on your resume requires a lot of effort to think and reword what you “did” at a job to “what problems did you solve” or “what did you improve”?  You can pay someone to write your resume, but you will still have to come up with the details for them to use.  I wrote some tips on this in a previous article.  Here is the link: http://www.hireaustin.org/2009/07/7-common-sins-of-a-resume/ [...] [...] Let’s start with one of my favorite topics, the resume.  When is the last time you seriously looked at your resume to see what you can do to improve it?  Your resume is a living document.  It can always stand room for improvement.  Very few people have exemplary resumes.  Why is this?  I think it is because a resume must be about selling yourself and few people are naturally good at this.  Selling yourself on your resume requires a lot of effort to think and reword what you “did” at a job to “what problems did you solve” or “what did you improve”?  You can pay someone to write your resume, but you will still have to come up with the details for them to use.  I wrote some tips on this in a previous article.  Here is the link: http://www.hireaustin.org/2009/07/7-common-sins-of-a-resume/ [...]

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