For the record, Heather Hamilton agrees with me about the video resume: One Louder : The exploding video resume. Neener.
Video resumes will exacerbate, not relieve, the problems inherent to resumes in general. The reason text resumes are so universally awful is that people have no idea what to put in them. They […]

Jason at Recruiting.com posted this there and it made me so, so very happy:
Dumb stuff I read on resumes

Please tell me that I’m not the only person who understands that the “video resume” isn’t going to take off anytime soon. There are several important reasons for this:
1. Most people read faster than people can talk. So while it might take me a minute to give your two page resume a good […]

I have a former coworker who remains my Language buddy- that is, she’s the person I check with when I’m stuck on a word, or the appropriate phrase, or other such English language quandary. Hence, we had the following email exchange:
From: Tiffany Bridge
To: Language Buddy
Subject: I’m blanking.
What’s the noun form of “conform?” I’m […]

One of the things that surprised me most when I first started reading recruiting blogs (which was only shortly after I got into recruiting) was the vehemence with which my fellow bloggers bashed the functional resume. Being but a recruiting noob myself, I was still blinded by my college career center’s advice that it […]

One of the many people I met at the Recruiting 2006 show was CM Russell, who writes the excellent Secrets of the Job Hunt and is also the founder of RecruitingFly and AllCountyJobs.com. Busy man. We sat down for a few minutes to talk about some advice for jobseekers. A lot of […]

Would you hire this person to write your resume?
I sure hope not…

Who. The. HELL. sends me a resume in Powerpoint?
Not a presentation about why I should hire them- which would still be a turnoff- but an actual resume, formatted normally, except in PPT format, complete with cheesy slide templates.

Okay, I REALLY should not have to say this, people. Seriously. But since someone apparently doesn’t know:
“Hi i was told to send you my resume”
is NOT an acceptable cover letter. Clearly it was your email client that capitalized the H in “Hi,” because there was no punctuation or capitalization in the rest […]

Ilya Cantor is appropriately horrified at CNN or Careerbuilder’s suggestion that you write your resume in an hour.
Dear heavens, please save us from the waves of people who have no idea how to write a resume who will smear some stuff down on paper and send it off, because CNN says so.
I do think that […]