Grimm: How To Tweak Your Resume
Nobody’s advocating lying on your resume, but it’s obviously smart to customize your resume to emphasize the skills pertinent to the job you’re applying for.
Here’s a really good example. A former NFL writer (six years covering the Redskins!) wants to switch to the corporate world, but “I believe that my background has gotten my resume tossed out just because it’s so sports-heavy…Perhaps it’s my own paranoia.” How to solve this dilemma?
Joe Grimm at Poynter.org
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