Recently a friend asked me for advice about her resume.
“In my “Objectives” section, should I say I want to ‘acquire’ a position or ‘obtain’ a position?”
Neither, I thought. (I’m difficult like that sometimes.) [Read more...]
Ditch the laundry list
October 27, 2010 by · 2 Comments
In “Show, don’t tell,” I talked about telling stories in your cover letters and resumes. In addition to lots of empty phrases (“people person”), another enemy of getting your point across is the impulse to list every single task, every single award, every single college club on your materials, in the hopes that all that accumulated stuff will be impressive. [Read more...]
