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I am wondering from quite a time how to find the right words to describe why I don’t like the occupation of a professional resume writer. I don’t mind people practicing that activity. It’s just that I think they should stop drumming into our heads the idea that if we don’t use their services, we won’t write successful resumes and cover letters. I personally find the difference between “should” and “must”. How do you think, there’s a difference, isn’t there?
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Has it ever occurred to you to search the answer of a certain question and find it right under your nose? I think that during my search for examples of cover letters I read more than 400 of them. And something irritated me in most of them: their first sentence. In most cases it’s something of the kind: “Concerning your advertisement in “X” newspaper or “Y” job portal I’d like to… ” Well, tell me what’s unique in this sentence? How the employer will read a few hundred similar beginnings of cover… Continue