Thursday, January 10, 2008

Safety in numbers, question mark!

I have just seen an ad for resume and cover letter samples on a website. This ad stated that millions of people use the samples they are selling. After just a few seconds, two questions arose:

First, why would anybody buy samples of resumes that everybody else is using? I thought that people want to stand out, be unique. Resume is not supposed to be a generic parrot-ization of your career.

Second, would you trust these people to handle your future career prospects, thus your entire life if they are obviously liars? How on earth can they tell with such a great authority that these people are using these samples? Maybe, after buying the samples customers realized their poor quality and did not use them at all.

Please be kind to the poll, take part and invite others.

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