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WRITING A RESUME

Accentuate
positive

If you're having By ISABEL WEGG

trouble finding the
right job, perhaps you you've recently graduated
need a refresher course {0m school and have little

f work experience, put your
on how to write a education first But. if
personal resume. You you've been working for

know--that concise but: fifteen years and have
cogent compendium of completed grade 12, your

. 4s work experience is more
your superior qualities. pertinent.”

As the song says.....ac-

According to personnel  centuate the positive!
consultant Meg Mitchell, Meg thinks people should
resume writing isn't as be selective about giving
difficult as it may seem. personal references. to

She says a resume should companies. It’s better to wait
be short and concise; no until after you've had an
more than two pages. interview. That way, you'll

“A resume is like a sales know if you intend to pursue
letter,” she said. “It’s a a career with them and, at
teaser; the tool that is going that point, you can provide
to get you inside that door.” them with the names of

What kind of information people you'd like them to
should people tease talk to.
prospective employers with? “People should use the
Basically, three kinds: resume to show their writing
personal information like  skills--how they express
name, address and phone themselves and organize
number; your education and material to achieve the
work experience. greatest impact.”

I asked what should come As she says, a resume is a
first--education or work _ sales letter of sorts. All you
experience. have to prove is that you're

“It depends on your the hottest thing on the
background,” she said. “If market!

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