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Anothr Way to Get Your Resume Shredded

Little White Space and No Bullets

There are few things that will make a hiring manager cringe more when reading a resume than long paragraph after long paragraph, with no space or bullets to break it up.

This sends a signal that you were too lazy to spend the time recapping your experience and skills for the hiring manager. Instead, the hiring manager has to plow through long narratives trying to uncover those qualifications that may match the job opening. Most of the time, these long, wordy resumes don’t get completely read and seldom result in an interview.

If you want to catch the hiring manager’s attention, you have to make your resume easy to read and easy to see what are your significant qualifications and experience. Don’t make the hiring manager dig for this. You should have far more bullets than paragraphs, and never have paragraphs longer than three sentences. This shows you respect the reader’s time and will get your story across far better.

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