Comments on: 8 Reasons Your Resume Stinks http://www.resumetarget.com/blog/2009/12/23/8-reasons-your-resume-stinks/ Get Hired! Professional Resume Writing Service and Help Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:29:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Barbara http://www.resumetarget.com/blog/2009/12/23/8-reasons-your-resume-stinks/#comment-2326 Barbara Fri, 13 May 2011 12:19:51 +0000 http://www.resumetarget.com/blog/?p=29#comment-2326 If you send your resume in Adobe PDF, you can be sure it won't get entered into a database for future reference/searches. If you want to stay active in a candidate database, the best is to send the file in a word file after you have checked the formatting, as suggested above. If you send your resume in Adobe PDF, you can be sure it won’t get entered into a database for future reference/searches. If you want to stay active in a candidate database, the best is to send the file in a word file after you have checked the formatting, as suggested above.

]]> By: Shannon http://www.resumetarget.com/blog/2009/12/23/8-reasons-your-resume-stinks/#comment-2321 Shannon Thu, 12 May 2011 00:56:48 +0000 http://www.resumetarget.com/blog/?p=29#comment-2321 Last paragraph, second sentence: "This is a calamity of the Internet, and formatting gets messed up more THEN job seekers realize." "Then" should be "than"! And further on in the same paragraph: "... test email it out to a few of your close associates. Then you can verify how it looks on their computer ..." Unless your close associates all share one computer, it should read "computers." Last paragraph, second sentence: “This is a calamity of the Internet, and formatting gets messed up more THEN job seekers realize.” “Then” should be “than”!

And further on in the same paragraph: “… test email it out to a few of your close associates. Then you can verify how it looks on their computer …” Unless your close associates all share one computer, it should read “computers.”

]]> By: Bert http://www.resumetarget.com/blog/2009/12/23/8-reasons-your-resume-stinks/#comment-449 Bert Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:40:42 +0000 http://www.resumetarget.com/blog/?p=29#comment-449 Editing is more then spell checking. If you don\'t know the difference between \"it\'s\" and \"its\" or when to use perspective rather than prospective, then find someone who does to read your resume before you send it into the world to represent your best efforts to communicate. This will pass most spell checkers: Ewe cant awl weighs bee write, sew dew sikh sum won too czech yore grandma. Fore shirr! Editing is more then spell checking. If you don\’t know the difference between \"it\’s\" and \"its\" or when to use perspective rather than prospective, then find someone who does to read your resume before you send it into the world to represent your best efforts to communicate.

This will pass most spell checkers: Ewe cant awl weighs bee write, sew dew sikh sum won too czech yore grandma. Fore shirr!

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