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华锐简历-中国领先简历服务商 简历制作中的6 个小细节 When Your Resume Isnt Level: 6 Tiny Details That Matter I get a kick out of requests to help friends or family with their resumes or cover letters. (Its nice to know Im in debt up to my armpits for skills that are in demand at all, even if its pro bono much of the time.) Every once in a while, though, I get tired of shrugging off the eye rolls when I point out grammatical errors and formatting inconsistencies. “It’s not all that important,” they say. “Who will notice that something’s a little off?” Everyone will, that’s who. Its not level! Yesterday, I was helping an engineer friend of mine with his cover letter and resume. After graduating with his masters in December, he’s decided that it’s time to buckle down to the job search “for real” and asked for my help. I had rewritten his resume in November and asked for the latest copy to be sent to me. Right away, I could tell something was off. The words were the same. The fonts were all right. The margins hadn’t been messed with. Then it hit me: the spacing was completely wonky. Sure, it was a little thing, but the spacing for each of the job dates had increased—someone probably adjusted job titles. The line extended too far, pushing the 华锐简历-中国领先简历服务商 document onto a second page and making the whole shebang sloppy as well as excessive. The carefully choreographed formatting was wrecked because someone had added an extra word or two without paying attention to the overall picture. “Who wrecked my fjkasdlgfjskd spacing?” I exclaimed to my friend via chat. (Yes, that’s keyboard vomit. I get frustrated and inarticulate when someone screws with my spacing.) “Oh. I hadn’t noticed,” came the reply. “Does it really matter?” “Yes. Your resume isnt level. Fixing it” was the best I could type without blowing up at him for destroying my precious form