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First of all—Employer-Centric-Resume? I think instead of giving people a place to think about making a place for them, Mr. “Employer-centric-Resume” seems desperate, even a naïve attempt at coming to terms with job market, if not life itself. We all know how testing, times can be at times, but does that mean we should deviate from the what we were set out to achieve at the first place. Exaggerating? Am I? Yes, I agree. But a good (Mr. Employee-centric-Resume, I can’t get enough of that) resume is like a good personality one needs to get an appointment to discuss a marriage proposition. Would you want to get married to someone just because you are desperate, at least not so if you want it to be a long-termer, isn’t it?

A resume can be a reflection of what you are—if you want it to be one. Whether the employer cares about the resume or not is his/her personal preference. If an employer doesn’t have time to look into a resume of someone who might be hired, chances are the employer won’t have enough time for you after you join the company. If one wants a career or wants to offer a career, one should feel the need for breathing air into the recruitment process, instead of letting it become a “watch the resume—hire—then fire” affair. If you speak to the hiring-manager about your affinity  “metal-music”—I would say, give him/her a Cradle of filth collector edition DVD and tell him/her to watch the video of  “From Cradle to Enslave”—you know my half kidding, right? No?

After seeing your resume, somebody might just like the fact that you are not a bore. Apart from few “do-s”, how the resume should look like is personal preference. You cannot target everyone—

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”– Bill Cosby.

But yes, don’t miss the fact to mention that you have worked as a JAVA programmer and that you worked in so and so project while ranting about how you have doubled your dating chances by learning Salsa! Resume can be an opportunity to build relationships (with employers), seriously? Why don’t you try.

True, jobs are still out there, Kevin, Sandra and Sarah might be simple cases of an employee not being fit for a job. Gone are the days when you would complete a MBA and land in a High Paying administrative job, don’t like it? Yeah, you can curse me for saying that. One might also want to check on skills those guys have. People might have been lucky to get into positions because some manpower was needed, we all know people are sometimes hired and kept in companies for reasons beyond what we call “work”.

It is important to know that we have a life first, and then the job. You spend most of your waking hours in the place you work in. So would you still…?

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