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Getting Your Résumé Read

Joel on Software, has an excellent article on Getting Your Résumé Read

Excerpts:

• OK, this one really bugs me. Learn where spaces go in relation to other punctuation. Attention, the entire population of India: whenever you have a comma, there is always exactly one space and it's always after the comma and never before it. Thank you.

• The personal pronoun "I" is always capitalized. All sentences must end in a period. If your cover letter looks like this I will not even look at your résumé:

  i m interested in your summer job.
  here is my resume
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• In most of the English speaking world it is not considered polite to open letters to a Mr. Joel Spolsky by writing "Dear Spolsky." One might write "Dear Mr. Spolsky," or "Dear sir," or perhaps, "Hi Joel!" But "Dear Spolsky" is usually followed by some story about embezzled funds and needing to borrow my bank account.
  

  Read the article Getting Your Résumé Read for more tips.

  Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at January 26, 2004 11:53 AM Perma Link