In a resume, the place to appropriately use "a" and "the" is never. At least according to the fancy management placement service I used to work for. I spent a year creating very professional resumes for very high level people, and the very last thing that was alwas done was to run a find function to make sure that articles did not appear anywhere in the resume. It's one of the areas where resume grammar is different from real grammar.
Three pages being a killer is also outdated. Given the economy of the last twenty years, lots of people in volitile fields - like aerospace - have three page resumes. The only alternative is to leave huge chronological gaps (a huge no-no) or to omit valuable experience.
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Date: 2012-04-20 01:52 pm (UTC)Three pages being a killer is also outdated. Given the economy of the last twenty years, lots of people in volitile fields - like aerospace - have three page resumes. The only alternative is to leave huge chronological gaps (a huge no-no) or to omit valuable experience.
There is no excuse for poor formatting.