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-Evaluation Chapters 7, 8S,10. 15, and 16 (ealcions) in Bavee&This; (Oct 10 Nov 12 ovee and Thill: Writing Employment Massages and 16 (selections) in Bovee and Thi Forum 5: Resume Ethies (includes assigned reading Writing resumes is a task people of all ages struggle with. Even though the document appears straightforward--a list of your educational and professional accomplishmeits. accompanied by a list of skills, to show a potential employer at a glance what you can do-it can be hard to decide what to wnte. You aay wonder what counts as an sccomplishment, or you might wonder how to fill the space if you're new to your field. Other questions that plague resume-writers are more ethical in nature: is it wrong, for example, to leave out a job you held, if you were fired? Is it wrong to exaggerate your computer skills to suggest you're an expert at a program you've only used a few times but feel you could easily learn Read the blog post at the following link:"The Ethics of Resume Witing Then post to the forum below, at least 3 times total, to discuss the ideas raised by this blogwriter. Cousider the various examples of rationalization he offers, and the practice of rationalization itself. What do you think about his suggestion for how to decide when such exaggeration is appropriate? What do you think of the statistics (and reasons) offered at the beginming of the post? Start no later than Friday, Oct 20. Forum credit will be camed by making 3 substantive contributions to the discussion by midniglt, Sunday, Oct 22 Note: you should not try to answer all of these questions in every post. Either start a new thread to discuss one of these ideas, if no oue is domg so yet. or join a few different existing discussions to talk about differeant idens
Explanation / Answer
Resume is the first introduction of the person.People try to make
it more and more impressive to attract more attention.In the efforts
od doing so many times they end up exaggertaing things out of
proportion and that is where a line has to be drawn. A per the blog
50% of the people lie on their resume.Many times such things happen
when we are very close to what we are depicting in the rseume. Various
example have been cited in the blog like being short of few credits
in erning the degree, impressive job titles as one is doing all that
in the current job, claimin team contribution's as their own. These
things are called rationalization meaning creating a justification for'
a decision that is actually flawed. Then there are other tests like
"other shoe test" or "front page test" which actually put oneself
into a position whether his/her resume is correct or not.But then
the bottom line remains no one wants to sell oneself short.In doubts
one should consider taking help from senior people.
