Resumes Quotes

“I will be avoiding the Boeing 737 Max for at least two years after it resumes operation.”
― Steven Magee

“On the list of things you want to do in life, fixing your resume is right up there with hitting yourself in the head with a hammer.”
― Martin Yate CPC, Knock 'em Dead Resumes: How to Write a Killer Resume That Gets You Job Interviews

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“If she doesn’t know I’m a complete fake, and I don’t think I’ve given her any reason to suspect that I am, she nonetheless has a remarkably clear idea of how to perpetrate the fakery. Which may just be the essence of résumé writing.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“As for posting your résumé on job boards like Monster.com—don’t even bother, if only because you’ll want to send a customized résumé for each job you apply for. I can only wonder what “customizing” involves and how much it borders on fraud.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“One thing I’ve learned, though: a Gap of any kind, for any purpose—child raising, caring for an elderly parent, recovering from an illness, or even consulting—is unforgivable. If you haven’t spent every moment of your life making money for somebody else, you can forget about getting a job.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“And no matter how upbeat they are—no matter how ingenious and flexible—the unemployed and underemployed understand that the clock is always ticking in the background. The longer you are unemployed, the less likely you are to find an appropriate job, and entries like “sales associate,” “limo driver,” or “server” do not make an attractive filling for the growing Gap in one’s résumé. At the same time, you are inexorably aging past the peak of occupational attractiveness, which seems to lie somewhere in the midthirties now. Experience is not an advantage; in fact, as Richard Sennett notes of corporate employment, “as a person’s experience accumulates, it loses value.” So once you fall into the low-wage, survival-job trap, there’s a good chance that you will remain there—an unwilling transplant from a more spacious and promising world.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream