Resume Response

I have many things to say about this one. Douglas Richardson and I'm assuming many individuals that are in the HR field take no prissoners when viewing resumes. If they even look at it.

Out of the few resumes I've written because I tend to use the same one every time...I just tweak them a little every now and them....I'd say that until recently. I've given HR reps a reason to laugh.

I think that "The Skeptical Resume Reader" shows us an alternate way to looking at a resume. It isn't extremely helpful, though tells us that thinking about how a skeptical reader would look at one's resume, we are almost prepared for the worst. I feel that this is how every potential employee usually thinks.

  I thought the article did a good job of giving hints for writing a better resume.  The article tells many different things to do and things not to do when writing a resume.  The writer gives his opinion about sectioning your resume and using bold fonts and underlining to express organiztion.  I think most of the information was basic common sense for most people.  I have made a couple resumes in the past and was able to take a few ideas for future resumes I may need to create.  

It was an interesting read, but I wasnt suprised by anything I read, nor did I learn much. I learned how to write resumes in highschool, and it always seemed to me common sense not to write an entire book. I've seen peoples resumes at the Industrial Roundtable, all colorful with pictures on them, paragraph descriptions of each job, multiple pages, and I couldnt help but laugh. My resume is bland, and I list my work experience, and a little information about what I did. It seems to work well as I've had a few internships so far.

To be completely honest, I was taught at a young age how to write a good resume, and most of what this writer had to say I already knew. I thought that it was common sense that you don't want to be writing long paragraphs of information about yourself on your resume. Anybody that thinks that is a good idea must have half a brain. This article really doesn't reposition my thoughts at all about creating an effective resume.

After reading this article I feel a lot worse about my past resumes. I always just list out information about myself with no real insight into who I am or how I would apply my knowledge. In my future resumes I will be sure to fix that problem and pay more attention to the things he mentions in the article. I never even had a real objective. I also tried to cram as much as I could onto the single page by cutting the margins down to the minimum. I have a lot of work to do...

-Amit

The thing that i took away from the article was that the first impression is the most important part about a good resume.  as stated in the article the majority of articles get tossed aside and don't even get a second look because they don't stand out.  also  large chunks of "verbiage" doesn't benefit you're resume because very few people read into such detail.

Over the years, I have been assigned to write a resume a total of around 5 seperate times. I have found that all individuals want a different style or way of the resume being completed. The one thing that has always been the same however is simplicity with magnitude. The resume needs to be easily read while also very informative. This article basically enforced some of the things I've already been told about what is needed in a resume. For instance, using strong words instead of weak words, making it easy to read, bulleting lists, keeping margins at least a certain size, etc.

There were many good points listed in this work about what a Resume needs. Specificly it needs to stand out above the rest. Job applicants must get their resume on the desk of the person hiring and have it pass the initial scan. This is something i need to learn from. My resume has a lot of clutter in it and it needs to be more to the point so the perosn reading it can see exactly what they want to see without spending much time initially. Not just that though, they need to see why your a good fit and so your resume should be your best bragging material.

He made a lot of really good points that i would never of thought of in creating my resume.  Some things that I would definately add to my resume that he pointed out is to not over do it, just put in things that would spark the readers interest and not just you going on and on.