This week, the team at at our site answers a few resumes questions sent in by our readers and visitors.
Answer: You’re not alone. Many frustrated job seekers have come to this conclusion and switched their focus from quality and care to quantity and mass-mailing efforts. In our experience, real success lies somewhere between. Invest in the jobs you really want, and for the rest, just tailor your (beautifully and carefully written) template resume. Then attach it to your tailored template cover letter and send it off.
Answer: Move forward, don’t look back. The resumes you sent have been sent, and there’s nothing you can do to call them back. You could re-apply to each of these jobs, but that would only call attention to your error. And besides, after three weeks, many of these jobs will now be staffed.
Learn from this moment, fix the error in your template, and keep moving. As you do so, keep a sharper eye out for small typos and problems, and let this experience humble you and encourage you to slow down and be more careful.
Our Resume Builder helps solve both of these problems by letting you create a polished resume that can be quickly reformatted to suit a variety of employers when you’re casting a wide net, and by providing editing help to catch errors and oversights that can sabotage your job search.
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