The modern resume

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I know what my biases are, but I haven't interviewed anywhere lately, and haven't interviewed more than a dozen candidates or so for my employer.

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[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

This is of immediate interest to me as well, since I haven't submitted a resume in a decade, and since it's been something of a frippery in my field for most of my career, which has mostly been "pharmacist at independent mom-and-pop drugstore". That's always been pretty much a handshake, "I like the cut of your jib, son" kind of arrangement.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I'll mention something here (for both of your benefit) that I learned long ago, and which I stick to.

Don't have "a resume". Have a resume-construction kit, and fine tune the daylights out of it for any job you apply for. The more you can tune, the better.

Also: for jobs for which one can expect more than 100 applicants - no one is going to read more than half a page of your resume. Make that half page COUNT - use it to buy yourself a closer reading. So, if my most recent work experience is not as on point as 2 jobs back, I place something about that job experience in the first half of the first page.

Resumes are two things - they are subjected to key word automated analysis, and they are a plea for attention.