Resume Advice

[lindyhop]

I always heard that resumes should only be one page long so I was amazed when I had to read resumes and none of them were just a page long. I was also annoyed. I wanted to trash everything that was more than one page but that would have been all of them.

It's also amazing to see all the typos and spelling mistakes. If you're applying for an accounting position being careful and accurate is sort of, uh, important.

Then HR started e-mailing resumes to us so you had to open the e-mail and print it out before you could see that the applicant was in India so you probably wouldn't be calling them in for an interview.

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with that any more.

And I hope I never have to update my own resume.