The resume. Thud. The very utterance of the word brings dread to the job seeker. What kind of masochist likes working on his resume?
Hiring authorities have the pleasure of writing … ugh … job descriptions! Second only to writing a resume in terms of dreadfulness, at least the need in the organization helps to define the task. Pre-existing organizational, functional, hierarchical, and budgetary factors frame the need-to-haves and nice-to-haves. Interestingly, I’ve never seen a job description include the ability to write a good resume as a key selection criterion. Unfortunately, every job candidate is measured, in some way or another, by the dreaded resume.