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Ask these three people to review your resume

Ask these three people to review your resume

From the course: Resume Makeover

Ask these three people to review your resume

- If you ask 10 people to review your resume, guess what'll happen? You will get a bunch of wildly varying advice, some of which will be contradictory, and some of it will be just bad. In fact, the more eyeballs you have on your resume and the more people offering their input all at once, the more overwhelmed you'll likely become. Now, this doesn't mean you shouldn't ask people for their input, not at all. Getting people that you know and trust to review this masterpiece can be quite useful, but I would limit the number of people that you ask to three, and here's who I'd ask first. Number one, the grammar whiz. We all have that eagle-eyed family member or friend who can spot a dangling participle a mile away. Ask them to take a look. Of course, you can invite them to share feedback beyond the nitty gritty grammar edits, but lean on this person for their proofreading prowess. The second person I'd ask, if you know one,…

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