Career counselors will tell you...
Career counselors will tell you that your resume is a most important tool for finding work. You hear about a job that seems absolutely perfect for you, so you mail your resume to the prospective employer. The problem is that other people also like the looks of the job and they also send in their resumes. A few days later, the employer is staring at a pile of several hundred resumes. In this era of competitive job markets, that is not an exaggeration. So, the experts tell you that your resume really needs to grab some attention. It needs to emphasize the positives and downplay the negatives.
