Bite of Advice: Un-"markup" your resume before sending it off
The Suggestion Kitty says … If you use “Markup” in Word to track changes and edits to your resume or cover letter, but sure to remove all the comments before emailing a softcopy of your resume to potential employers.
By default on my computer, Word opens documents in “Markup” view, and I can’t tell you how many resumes I’ve opened that look like this:
So be careful. Make sure you aren’t sending out resumes with hidden comments.
And yes, Duncan is my dog, and no, he’s not available for employment. :)
Meow!
gretchen
<Edit: 3/13> Saurabh points out that you can download the hidden data removal add-in here.
15 Comments
gretchen said:
I know this picture is too wide, and it's messing up the formatting of my blog. I can't seem to get it to fit right on the page, but I'll fix it soon enough. Just don't complain that it's too big. :)
Somebody said:
Good One!
Mason said:
I've seen dogs as lead PMs before (typically Boarder Collies, German Shepards, and the occasional Corgi) but never dev leads. You sure I couldn’t schedule an informational with him?
Rob Stevens said:
Interesting comment on gl5 there ... did the reviewer actually suggest inflating the number of people on the team? Surely this is frowned upon?
Brian Korzeniowski said:
Is it just me or is comment gl4 incorrect? Isn't Washington spelled exactly as it should be? W.a.s.h.i.n.g.t.o.n?
gretchen said:
Somebody - thanks!
Mason - hee, hee. :) good one. And Duncan says he might be available to meet with you. Woof.
Rob - I have seen this before. And right, that's not good ... but only if the applicant actually follows the advice!
Brian - it is now, b/c the reviewer corrected it. Not sure if you can see, but the "n" is underlined and red.
Brian Korzeniowski said:
I guess I need my eyes checked. sorry.
gretchen said:
:) it's small. by the way, i'm still trying to update this picture but my site is down on the back-end and I can't log in
KerryB said:
I'm not sure which letter it is, but I'll bet it is not a lowercase English 'n'
gretchen said:
lol. Well, I was going to post a little something to commemorate it. Thanks for realizing that! Also, Zoe and I are going out to dinner to celebrate. I'll tell her you all said hi!
KerryB said:
Aproova:
Or it could be an Armenian small letter vo.
In Word, if you type in this sequence:
0578
followed by: <Alt> x
the resulting character looks just like a lowercase English 'n'
Word may auto-capitalize it though if you put it as the first character, so to avoid that, put it in after another character.
gretchen said:
Thanks! I just edited the post to reflect that link.
Thinker said:
Interesting suggestion. Infact this could be a good feature to take on office automation.
Maybe a Publish feature with MSWord/etc which can make a copy of the document available for sending by mail without hidden text.
Should be interesting to see jobs posted for this :)
Apoorva Joshi said:
It is a lowercase English "n".
Gretchen, do we have a grand party tomorrow? Jobsblog turns exactly one year old! You better invite your die-hard readers!!
Happy Birthday! ;-)
Saurabh Jain said:
You can download the hidden data removal add-in(Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data) from
<a target="_new" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en</a>