Dunno about you, but writing a resume is one of my least favourite things to do. I suppose they're a necessary evil, but I wish we could find a better way of communicating what we do well. And if we can send man to the moon and invent all sorts of neat gizmos and gadgets, you'd think we could reinvent this stupid document. But noooo, we're still forced to participate in this archaic and tortuous event. What I find especially galling is to see resumes required for things like babysitting (excuse me?), and the knowledge that your resume is not even always seen by the person you sent it to. This means of course that your whole working history (a huge part of your life) is revealed to who knows who. Not a big deal I guess, but somehow I feel a little bit robbed of my privacy every time I send out one of those darn things.
And don't even get me started on cover letters -- they're even worse than resumes! But help, dear reader, is on the way. Nope, not from me (although I have managed to land some jobs so I must do something right some of the time, snort), but from the talented Squawkfox who has managed to outline the best way I've seen yet of tackling these two annoying tasks. Check out her series on resume and cover letter writing. You won't be disappointed!
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