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How to avoid typos on your resume

Posted Thursday, November 12 2009 by The JobsBloggers

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The Washington Post's recent article Tiny Typos Can Add Up To a Big X On Your Résumé details a few suggestions on how to avoid typos on your resume.

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Ditch these 6 words

Posted Tuesday, November 10 2009 by The JobsBloggers

Anne

Many candidates find it difficult to capture their experience on their resume, so what ends up happening is a pretty generic explanation of their role and responsibility with little detail on their impact and contribution.

Lifehacker had a great simple tip to create compelling resumes by avoiding 6 commonly used words on a resume - ditch these six words from the fold.

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Our Chief Research and Strategy Officer visits campuses

Posted Thursday, November 05 2009 by The JobsBloggers

This week Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, has been visiting college campuses to talk with students about how the new capabilities in computing will help tackle some of the planet’s toughest challenges. 

At Cornell, Harvard, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Washington, Craig is showing the leading-edge work taking place at Microsoft and demonstrating work from the Computational Science Group out of Microsoft Research Cambridge (U.K.). He's also discussing the kinds of computers students will soon be using.

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