"Indeed, it's hard to do without "a" and have things make sense. "The" is a lot more avoidable, in my experience."
Actually, it's not - I did it professionally for a year. You just need some facility with the language, which it does sound like your candidate was lacking.
Summary paragraphs are more difficult, but they're also something of a dinosaur these days. They're great if you need to fill some space, but they're no longer de rigueur.
"If the placement service is making *my* job harder, they've failed..."
Well, yes. Which is why they hire people like me - and when I left there, I went on to a field where precision in language is MUCH more important. The sort of place I was working wouldn't be generating resumes that people at our levels would be seeing though - they catered to a much more highly placed pool of executives who generally received our services as part of a golden parachute.
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Date: 2012-04-21 01:19 am (UTC)Actually, it's not - I did it professionally for a year. You just need some facility with the language, which it does sound like your candidate was lacking.
Summary paragraphs are more difficult, but they're also something of a dinosaur these days. They're great if you need to fill some space, but they're no longer de rigueur.
"If the placement service is making *my* job harder, they've failed..."
Well, yes. Which is why they hire people like me - and when I left there, I went on to a field where precision in language is MUCH more important. The sort of place I was working wouldn't be generating resumes that people at our levels would be seeing though - they catered to a much more highly placed pool of executives who generally received our services as part of a golden parachute.