How could professionals, making over $100,000, not know how to write a proper resume?
I am just curious, even my 15 yr old cousin could write a resume, why can’t people who make over $100,000 write a resume? I sit here & fix resumes for these people who make triple what I make…I just don’t get it. Is it that hard to write your own resume…to line up the bullets properly? I have seen resumes using different fonts, different dates, like one job will say 10/2001 and the other March 2005 and yet another saying 03/05…has anyone every heard of consistency? Should I just start my own resume writing business?
Very true, just because they make a lot of money doesn’t mean they know how to write well. I guess I feel that makign alot of money and having an education go hand in hand but guess not.
Ronin ~ It is very sad that you feel people don’t need to know how to write properly. That you feel it’s OK for people that run this country not to be able to form a sentence. Since when has writing become obsolete? It hought before you can graduate college, you need to be able to learn how to write but I guess when you are making that much money or have the money, you can afford to pay someone to write your papers for you. It’s sad, instead of becoming more intellegent our country is just becoming more lazy.
Even though there are any number of very high-salaried employees, did we ever consider the question of how they obtained their present job? Perhaps the resume route was just a ploy to make it appear that they followed some sort of conventional prepare-and-send-in-your resume scenario. And that the resume was not a necessary ingredient on why certain people were chosen over others who had better written/finished resumes. A closer look may reveal that there is definitely "insiders" who are invited into high-paying jobs, regardless of what appears on their resumes.
It’s that old rather tired adage, "it’s not what you know, it’s who you know that will get you the job."
Good luck!
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7 comments to How could professionals, making over $100,000, not know how to write a proper resume?
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There isn’t much of a correlation between making a lot of money and being able to write well.
In fact, in high paying arenas big-picture thinking is often rewarded more than detailed thinking, so the folks who succeed at high paying jobs are often not looking at the level of detail required to put together a fully detailed resume.
From another perspective, if they’ve got someone else doing the work for them, why bother fixing it up yourself?
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Just because they make over 100K doesn’t make them smart.
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I think they are too busy to do it – why not start your own business? People will be grateful that someone can help them with their resumes –it will save them a lot of time and you can earn something in the process
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It’s because salary is no indication of writing/computer skills.
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Writing a resume is a skill, it pays reasonably well, go ahead and do this if you have nothing better or more lucrative to get on with. Having the skills to do a job and selling yourself for that job are not the same thing. I am currently unemployed, this does not worry me greatly and gives me time to do stuff like this, my resumes are not very good, it is not a skill I have learned or am keen to master, I would rather someone else do it for me, but they don’t always do a better job at selling me than I can myself. You are right when you note that people, in general, don’t learn to write anymore. There was a time when it was important to aspire to excellent written and verbal expression. We have moved on, look at Paris Hilton, it is what you are seen to be rather than what you say that matters to young people today. Infact the lack of forum for action means that posing is more important than capability. This will all change when the boom times are over and it is who you really are, what you can do and what you know that counts, and burbery and bling won’t help you.
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They probably don’t know how to change the oil in their car either so they go to Jiffy Lube and some kid making $7 an hour does it. What’s your point? You think because you can use Word that your better than these people? That you should be making $100k? You see, time is money. Why should these people spend an hour with their resume which will cost them at least $50 in lost income when they can have you do it for free on the internet?
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Even though there are any number of very high-salaried employees, did we ever consider the question of how they obtained their present job? Perhaps the resume route was just a ploy to make it appear that they followed some sort of conventional prepare-and-send-in-your resume scenario. And that the resume was not a necessary ingredient on why certain people were chosen over others who had better written/finished resumes. A closer look may reveal that there is definitely "insiders" who are invited into high-paying jobs, regardless of what appears on their resumes.
It’s that old rather tired adage, "it’s not what you know, it’s who you know that will get you the job."
Good luck!
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