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Just So Every Entry Today Won't Be About Me Trying to Drive
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Made It
9/28/07
Audio entry
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9/27/07
News From The Land of People Who Have More Time For Their Pointless Hobbies Than You Do
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Which Way to Mecca?
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Weekend Assignment #185: Bad Clothes! Bad!
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Catch the Red Eye
9/26/07
A Penny For Your Thoughts
9/26/07
24 Years Ago Today, The World Didn't Blow Up
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Some People Can Have Fun With Anything
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You Think Like a Caveman
9/25/07
Something to Distract You This Tuesday Afternoon
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Attack of The Space Germs
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Things You Don't Want to Eat (Or at least, I Don't)
9/25/07
When Geeks Propose
9/24/07
Oh, Goody. More Books!
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Houston, We Have a Job Application
9/24/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Red Eye!
9/24/07
Why I Don't Drag Race
9/23/07
What's Another Foot, More or Less
9/22/07
Why Women's Images of Themselves Are Kind of Messed Up, Part the Infinite
9/21/07
First Day of Fall
9/21/07
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9/21/07
Time-Limited Marriage?
9/21/07
Something I've Personally Thought for a Very long Time
9/20/07
Out of Date
9/20/07
Weekend Assigment #184: From the Top of Mount TBR
9/20/07
Yes, But How Many Were Likely to Have Sex to Begin With?
9/19/07
Arrr! It Be That Day Already!
9/19/07
When Internet Memes Collide!
9/19/07
Nothing in Your Life Has Prepared You For This
9/19/07
Bye Bye Belgium?
9/18/07
Why, In My Day, We Had Rough Wooden Slats! And We Liked It!
9/18/07
If You Look at Only One Exploding Volcano Picture Today...
9/18/07
To The Moon!
9/18/07
That Twinkie's Gonna Cost You
9/17/07
From the "Oh, ICK" Files
9/17/07
Reminder: The Computer Cannot Be Your Whole Life
9/17/07
Lots of Polls
9/17/07
Monday Photo Shoot: Personally Obsolete
9/16/07
This Science Seems Fishy to Me
9/15/07
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9/14/07
Your Unspeakable Cuteness for a Friday Afternoon
9/14/07
Chew on This
9/14/07
This is Why I Tell My Daughter to Go Roll in Mud Every Day
9/14/07
If You Wear Pink That Means You're Taunting the Bullies
9/13/07
Where's Pink Floyd When You Need Them?
9/13/07
Weekend Assignment #183: Make a Poll
9/13/07
Mugging for the Camera
9/12/07
More Fun Than You Ought to Have With a Periodic Table
9/12/07
More Reminders That Not Even Celebrities Are as Attractive as Celebrities
9/12/07
Boom!
9/12/07
Recycle This, Pal
9/11/07
Pets Interested
9/11/07
An Inquiry Into the Nature of Pain
9/11/07
Because Watching on One Screen in Your House Just Isn't Enough!
9/11/07
Reclining Bucket Injury
9/10/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Get Mugged
9/10/07
Our Fuzzy Twins
9/10/07
Fog Day!
9/9/07
A Big Collection of a Whole Lot of Nothing
9/8/07
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9/8/07
In Today's Edition of Questionable Household Tips
9/7/07
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9/7/07
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9/7/07
The Latest Haute Cuisine Craze I'm Not Sure I Can Get Into
9/7/07
If You Give a Meerkat a Camera...
9/6/07
Weekend Assignment #182: You're an Animal
9/6/07
An Emotional Moment
9/5/07
Speaking of Burgers...
9/5/07
The Cleanest Cars You (Probably) Can't Buy
9/5/07
Don't Annoy the HR Department
9/5/07
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9/4/07
The Weirdest Story You'll Read Today
9/4/07
Cigarettes are Driving Us Crazy
9/4/07
Burning Out Rather Than Fading Away
9/4/07
End of Summer Sign
9/3/07
Lies! All Lies! (Well, One out of Three, Anyway)
9/3/07
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Expression
9/2/07
An Interesting Compare and Contrast
9/1/07
Here, Eat This
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
9:17:00 AM EDT
Hearing Place to Be -- Nick Drake

Don't Annoy the HR Department


I know at least one By The Way reader and member of our AOL-J community is job shopping right now, and while I'm almost certain that person doesn't need this, I'm going to throw it out there for the rest of you: 10 Ways Your Resume Irks Hiring Managers. It's a list of the stupid errors and quasi-informational bits people put on resumes that give the people reading the resume an excuse to toss it in the circular file. Don't give them that excuse.

Also, come on. If you've worked in Manhattan for ten years and can't spell the word? That's just sloppy.


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  • #1 Comment from anaedream 
    9/5/07 2:44 PM | Permalink
    "One of the weirdest things that I ever saw on a resume ... was a candidate who explained a 10-year lapse in work experience as being in jail during those years for killing her husband," ....

    I really want to laugh, but my moral compass is trying to keep me pointed in the direction of horror.

    I need to get rid of that stupid general objective then! I've had that on there for years. :(