Dan Smolen's Blog – May 2012 Archive (1)

The Case Against the Kitchen Sink: Why Résumés Need To Be Only As Long As They Need To Be

It arrived as a WORD file--about 2.4 megabytes large.

At first, I thought someone emailed me a PowerPoint presentation converted to WORD. But upon opening it, I discovered that the file in my inbox was actually a candidate résumé--the largest one which, in over 14 years of hunting heads, I had ever received. Here, the stats:


  • 14 pages
  • 1,800+…
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Added by Dan Smolen on May 22, 2012 at 12:08pm — No Comments

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