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[akujunkan]

Why, she says, is lj eating all my comment informs?

In other news, resumes are surprisingly easy to write, but surprisingly difficult to nitpick. I swear, my parents are worse than your average beta reader.

Parents: "It's great, honey!"

Me: "There must be something wrong with it."

Parents: "No, it's wonderful! Great job!"

Me: "No, please, I long to have it torn to shreds! I know there are problems; tell me what they are! My feelings will not be hurt. I want the burn. I desire the burn. I pine for the burn."

Parents: Do not want to hurt my feelings; do not deliver.

Which stinks, because as adults with eighty years of shared work experience between them, they know a whole lot more about this business than I do. By babying me, they are not helping my chances of attracting my potential employers' eyes.

That said, I think I did a pretty darn good job on a first time resume. It looks snappy. (It would look snappier if I could a) stop microsuck for divining what I must really have wanted to do with the formatting, and b) figure out how to draw horizontal strikethroughs.)

And what, you may ask, am I writing a resume for?

Well, that's a secret, but I hope to have good news soon.

That will be all.

PS: Thanks again to everyone who offered comfort last Friday. You guys rock!

Comments

[shoebucket.livejournal.com]

you want letters horizontally struck through, or you want line breaks?

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Well, what I have is a line that ends way before the end of the page, like this:

blahblahblahbha

for my headers, and I want some sweet little horizontal lines to delineate between my sections, as you can see here. (http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/ecep/resume/Irving%20M.%20Quinn%20revised%20resume.doc)

Seriously, dude. Me and two other people spent an hour trying to figure out how they did that.

[shoebucket.livejournal.com]

just those little lines that finish out the line "SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS" and "EDUCATION" and such?

easy as pie.

For one, you should be able to copy and paste it from one to the other.

Otherwise, it's just like inserting a picture, except you insert an object that's like a diagram. If you're using Office (silly Windoze people) there might even be the ability to add it from the "add shapes" or "insert shapes" or something at the same place you find the add a "word art" option.

[shoebucket.livejournal.com]

you'll have to forgive me... I've had a couple of martini's tonight and my thinking isn't so clear. heheh. :-)

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tips! I'll have a look at that later this evening. Right now I'm battling with the cover letter.
(Parents: Great resume! Really! Where's the cover letter?

Me: Whaddaya mean there's gotta be a cover letter?)

The thing about C&Ping from the example above, or inserting a shape - will it adjust to fit the page space?

And don't get on me about microsuck. If I had my choice I'd use Linux, but I've got to stick with what's compatible with my school's puters. >.

[shoebucket.livejournal.com]

what is it on your school's computers that's stopping you? I may be able to help.

Cover letters are out-dated. You don't really need one unless the employer asks for it.

Should adjust to fit page space. Let me know if you run into troubles.

[ishuka.livejournal.com]

and it's twice the trouble when you have to write it for the first time. i'll be going through that when i graduate. i can't wait XD