From a email with a fellow turkey
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Here’s my feedback. A picture is worth a thousand words. Most of my turkeys don’t get the idea of a compacting the header. It’s the most important space on the resume. Your resume is two pages. I think you should either “fill up” two or make it one. I don’t have a ruler handy but I bet more that than 50% is wasted. It’s critical that the first half page be the most well used. It might be all that gets read before it gets tossed. It could save the game. I always say if your the right person, the reader will get out a magnifying glass to read your name. Name, phone, and email on one small header line in 8 point font is all that needed. Do that an I bet you get back 2″x7″ or fourteen square inches of prime resume landscape.
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He made what I call the “classic letter” mistake. You know when you were in grammar school and you wrote a letter, it looked like:
dd mmmmm, yyyy
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
Dear xxxxx,
So to, he put his name, address, phone, and email in that left column sort of format. 6 lines that took a quarter of the width and made a huge barren area. So I used MS-Paint to color some stuff in there.
:-)
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