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6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck

Here’s how to spin the 6 sucky resume words into skills that sizzle. (Via: Squawkfox) Responsible For Experienced Excellent written communication skills Team Player Detail Oriented Successful

Posted 22 January 2009 † CV Bin § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Are you a software developer applying to a small company?

Joel on Software have another good resume tip if you are a Software Developer applying for a small company. Here is an excerpt; When a startup CTO sees a resume that says things like: Responsible for $30m line of business Architected new ERP platform Managed team of 25 developers Optimized business processes they think, “Spare [...]

Posted 12 January 2009 † CV Bin § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Scobleizer on Resumes that suck

Scobleizer says that 80% of Resumes are crap and will be rejected out of hand. How do you get put into the crap pile? Here’s some ways from his blog; Include only an attachment and don’t write anything in the body of the email. Include a misspelling. Apply for a job which you are clearly [...]

Posted 06 October 2008 † CV Bin § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Resume Twins

Yes, sometimes we get very similar resumes from totally different people.

Posted 25 September 2008 † CV Bin § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Someone good with ‘his sql’

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