Resumes

Preparing and Writing Resumes:

1. No one size fits all resume or cover letter
- Advice not Mandates
- Getting away from templates
2. The businesses reading your resume might look at one subject of the document, usually application material like experience and proficiencies/skills
- What are the hooks? What are the detractors?
- How do recruiting managers read them?

Munschauer
1. Why use it
- Message not Ritual
- Inundation with conflicting 'ritual' advice.
- Losing sight of the 'message'
- Speak to the employers' needs
2. Think "You" not "I"
- Researching companies' needs. (industry trade journals and other literature about the company
- Long and Short according to Melcher...put yourself in the employer's shoes.

Letters of Application
1. Employment managers burn through letters.
- What are they dismissing?
- Poor grammar, narcissistic terminology, unprofessional appearance, etc.
- What good letters have in common...
- Neat/organized, succinct, no grammar/spelling errors.
2. How to avoid pitfalls?
- Attention to detail!!
- Have someone with credibility check it
- Don't delegate job of writing

Resume Prep
1. DO NOT include unnecessary information (Nancy Jones on 287)
2. Communicate career-related experience
- It is good to throw in stuff like playing collegiate hockey, just don't put it first
- Separate job essential/relevant stuff from extra stuff.
3. Use proper headings. Don't cap information that is not extremely important.

Resume Prep for Specific Job
1. "You can't get blood from a stone"
- Basically, understand the market for your desired job. Don't send a resume to a dead-end, or shrinking company.
2. Functional Resume.
- Mark Meyers

Page length???
Harty says two