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Quotes About Resume

I can put on my resume: 'Can play dead.'
~ Tom Verica
People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.
~ Mickey Drexler
People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled. What about study abroad will make you a better J.Crew associate?
~ Mickey Drexler
The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.
~ Jon Taffer
I was lucky to get really good films, even though I don't have 100 films in my resume.
~ Shefali Shah
If you're applying for a creative position, don't be afraid to get a little creative on your resume.
~ Rebecca Serle
Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.
~ Daniel Lyons
My resume is lean enough that I don't have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.
~ Grace Poe
People make a mistake when they think that if you just accumulate a set number of things on your resume, it's going to lead you to a particular place - the pattern of essentially compiling credentials to climb your way up a ladder. That may work, but that's not at all what happened to me.
~ Ben Rhodes
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
Larry Brown had quite a resume.
~ Stan Van Gundy
I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.
~ Michael Weatherly
So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
Consider a 2005 study by Princeton sociologists Devah Pager and Bruce Western finding that whites just released from prison fared better in the New York City job market than blacks with identical résumés but no criminal record.
~ Dorothy Roberts
I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.
~ Lloyd Blankfein
The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Becoming an Eagle Scout is just about the only thing you can put on your resume at age fifty that you did at age fourteen--and it still impresses.
~ Randy Pausch
Becoming an Eagle Scout is just about the only thing you can put on your resume at age fifty that you did at age fourteen—and it still impresses. (Despite
~ Randy Pausch
My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.
~ Chris Pine
Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.
~ Amit Kalantri
I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.
~ Richard Sammel
If someone sends out a resumé to three hundred companies, that's a huge red flag right there. There's no way that applicant has researched you. There's no way he knows what's different about your company. If you hire based on this garbage, you're missing the point of what hiring is about. You want a specific candidate who cares specifically about your company, your products, your customers, and your job.
~ Jason Fried
When you hear 'experience,' that's all about resume. And Obama didn't have the resume. But we knew, long before that, 'steady in a crisis' was much more important than 'experience.' When you watched the presidential campaign, you saw that Obama was the one who happened to be steady... He demonstrated aspects of his character people were hungry for.
~ Joel Benenson