Your résumé should be designed to give me a glimpse and a hook. The glimpse is a view into the most recent years of your professional career. It should convey your three most important accomplishments and it should give me a good idea where your technical skills lie. The hook is more important. The hook will leave me with a question. Maybe it’s something from your “Other Interests” section. How about an objective so outlandish that I can’t help but set up a phone screen. I’m not suggesting that you make anything up; I’m asking you to market yourself in a way that I’m going to remember. A
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