Postage, Guitars, and Middle Schools...

Recently I had the privilege to review resumes for a position... through this process I have made several determinations.

Here are some of the, how shall we say, “mistakes” I ran into and some recommendations I have as a result:

• When looking for a job... don’t send your resume postage due.
  
• Your interests are only important if you are asked… for example, don’t include a separate page with your interests which says: “Playing guitar and piano, writing, singing.” Ah, I need to hire an office clerk… not Harry Connick Jr.
  
• I would tend to stay away from starting your cover letter with sentences like: “Let me introduce myself I am Jane Doe, I am married and have 2 grown children. We live in Anytown with 4 cats and a dog that thinks of himself as a cat.”
  
• Although there are plenty more to come I am going to wrap things up today with the following: these days there is probably not a need to list your Middle School as a part of your education. But to cap it off by listing next to it: “Graduated”???

Wow… I will share more of these worthless words later...