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Ecommerce Operations | I help SMBs grow their direct-to-consumer website sales while staying compliant and profitable on Amazon channels | UCD Smurfit MBA | Fan of poems and photographs

Since I've been spending time on Reddit's r/resumes community, I've written an article about how keeping a work journal vastly improves the quality of your resume bullet points. I also discuss Richard Scarry picture books, and what they can teach you about resume writing. https://lnkd.in/eecBHP23

From the resumes community on Reddit: Why You Should Keep a Work Journal

From the resumes community on Reddit: Why You Should Keep a Work Journal

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Artie Moffa

Ecommerce Operations | I help SMBs grow their direct-to-consumer website sales while staying compliant and profitable on Amazon channels | UCD Smurfit MBA | Fan of poems and photographs

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(excerpt) "…Children are not born knowing what a banker does, what a baker does, what a firefighter does. It’s both useful and lovely to explain basic job duties to children so they can understand how their town functions. A lot of people, including job seekers on this subreddit, seem to think resumes are Richard Scarry books. People spend their resumes explaining what a baker does all day: • rolled out dough for pies and bagels each morning • sold doughnuts and muffins to customers; returned correct change • turned off ovens and swept kitchen clean every night WHAT? That’s only a resume if you were terrible at your job. I’m serious; if I saw those three bullet points on a baker’s resume, I would assume the baker in question had just been fired.…"

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