Comments on: 3 Things Your Resume Must Include

By: Kerry Sandberg Scott

Kerry Sandberg Scott — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:57:55 +0000

Marianne—It’s from someone on Flickr (there’s a link at the very bottom of the post). I love it too. I have zero design ability, so I am in awe of people who can do stuff like that.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:21:44 +0000

Hi Kerry,

I love the design-job resume you used to illustrate this article! Where is it from?

Marianne
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By: Kerry Sandberg Scott

Kerry Sandberg Scott — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:36:10 +0000

Charlie—I think that belongs in the cover letter, unless you’re going to do it for every job listed…and although I’ve seen people actually do it for every job listed, it always strikes me as sounding a little defensive.

Sometimes a smoother way to do this is in the bullet points themselves. That’s how I handle changes between subsidiaries, promotions that aren’t always self-evident, etc.

By: Charlie Judy

Charlie Judy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:21:06 +0000

hey, kerry, what do you think about some brief (one sentence) explanation about why you left a particular role/organization for another. it always comes up in interviews and is important context...are you seeing this at all? .-= Charlie Judy´s last blog ..Using Global Subtleties in HR Practice =-.

By: Kerry Sandberg Scott

Kerry Sandberg Scott — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:30:03 +0000

Exactly. You want to make sure it’s never an effort to get in touch with you.

By: class factotum

class factotum — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:19:58 +0000

A friend who is in HR says she liked when the name and phone numbers are on each page of the resume and cover letter, too. This was 20 years ago when she was still in recruiting and getting strictly paper cover letters and resumes, but I suppose recruiters print resumes when they get them. My friend said that sometimes the letters would get separated from the resume and if she wanted to call, she had to go look up the resume to get the number and it was a pain. If the resume pages got separated accidentally and the name wasn’t on page 2, then she couldn’t match them.

I suppose the overall philosophy would be to make it as easy as possible for a recruiter to contact you.
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By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:24:08 +0000

Good tips. I would add another tip about phone numbers. When I was applying for a zillion jobs last year I noticed a lot of unknown and blocked numbers with no voice mails. I finally had an HR manager tell me she doesn’t usually leave a message on a cell phone because it might be company-owned and may not be private. I solved this problem by changing my greeting to “you have reached the personal voice mail of…”.

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