10 Old School Resume Rules

Last week I wrote a guest blog post over at What Would Dad Say, talking about how older job seekers might need to think like 13-year-olds to succeed in job interviews today. But over the past couple days, I started thinking about all the ways we should NOT repeat behaviors from times gone by. Old-school resume writing machine

Specifically, we need to ditch at least 10 of the old-school resume and cover letter rules that were popular back in the ’70s, ’80s, and even into the ’90s.

Here’s a fun little retrospective of 10 outdated resume and/or cover letter guidelines from the past few decades, and the new rules that have replaced them:

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