4/12/03 10:51:36 AM, Herbert Graf wrote: > Good for you, many don't. Remember, this is a resume, you want the person >reading it to have to do AS LITTLE work as possible, few people out there in >the business world are as competent as many of us here when it comes to >stuff like this. It's not even a question of competence. It's a question of time. The general rule of thumb is that a resume has about 30 seconds to convince its first reader that the candidate is worth pursuing. And that it's competing with *lots* of other resumes being read by that reader. If the reader has to spend even a few seconds formatting a resume, it's lost a big chunk of that window of time. Note that the same considerations apply to press releases. Too many people are unable to get reporters interested in their stories because they try to tell their stories in their press releases. That's not the purpose of a press release; the purpose is to convince a reporter who's got a ton of press releases in front of him that there's a possible story and he should try to find out what it is. Both resumes and press releases have to pass a "glance and skim" test. They have to tell the reader *right away* whether or not it's going to be worth his/her time to read them in depth. If the reader can see that he'll have to do the in-depth reading first and then decide afterward whether or not the time was worth it, he/she *simply won't do it*. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.