Less Really Is More

That point is driven home in the provocatively-titled post on Brazen Careerist, “If You Really Want To Make Your Point, Start Stripping.” It’s not about taking off your clothes, of course, but about stripping your job application down to its bare essentials.

“For your resume…commit to one page and stick to that. It will force you to keep your most relevant experience and ditch the fluff.” Yes. As Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch once famously said, and has been repeated in every freshman comp seminar since, “murder your darlings.”

Same with your elevator pitch.