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<div>Hey Mark, </div>
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<div>You're getting some good responses, so I'll defer to people doing research on this topic. </div>
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<div>In my experience, though, resumes are still vitally important, but their roles are changing. Almost all job applicants still need to upload some kind of resume into job search engines and employers ask for a resume before an interview. So, having a resume
ready to go is important. Pedagogically, making a resume is also a good way to show students (and future job applicants) how to get their credentials together into one concise space. </div>
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<div>Job search engines may slice and dice resumes, and an individual resume itself may never be seen by recruiters. But, the content of the resume is necessary for that knife work. A PowerPoint introduction or YouTube video isn't an adequate replacement. The
resume is still one of the most concise ways to package an applicant's credentials and experiences in a scannable form, whether it's being read on paper or by a computer. </div>
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<div>Resumes are also used for other purposes, which is why they are still needed. In today's agile teaming environments, resumes are used internally within companies to locate the right people for specific projects. Also, resumes are still added to proposals
and other documents to show who will be on a project. Resumes are used for reviews and promotion discussions. </div>
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<div>My point is that the purposes of resumes may be changing, but I still think the resume is a useful assignment in a tech comm or business comm course. I'm also a bit cautious about shoveling dirt over long-time genres, because they often end up being more
resilient than people expected. (I would agree that cover letters are just about dead.) Teaching the resume is still important. </div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>ATTW-L <<a href="mailto:attw-l-bounces@attw.org">attw-l-bounces@attw.org</a>> on behalf of Ray Boxman <<a href="mailto:boxman@eng.tau.ac.il">boxman@eng.tau.ac.il</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 11:18 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>'Rebecca Walton' <<a href="mailto:rebecca.walton@usu.edu">rebecca.walton@usu.edu</a>>, "<a href="mailto:craniac@gmail.com">craniac@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:craniac@gmail.com">craniac@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">We teach CV and resume preparation in our Communicating Science short course (directed at STEM grad students) – see
<a href="http://communicating-science.com">http://communicating-science.com</a>. Our approach is conventional, however, based on common practice and not supported by any current research effort. Most of Chapter 9 of our text book (<a href="https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10145">https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10145</a>)
is directed at CV’s, resumes, and other job-hunting documents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> ATTW-L <<a href="mailto:attw-l-bounces@attw.org">attw-l-bounces@attw.org</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> <span lang="HE" dir="RTL">יום ד 07 נובמבר 2018 16:55</span><br>
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<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:attw-l@attw.org">attw-l@attw.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ATTW-L] Teaching the resume<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You might check out Chalice Randazzo's work. She has done important and interesting research on reflexivity in the process of resume design, gaps and silences in resumes and cover letters, and other considerations-- almost all of which
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 7:43 AM Mark Crane <<a href="mailto:craniac@gmail.com">craniac@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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for doing this in a way that is supported by existing research. My own sense is that resumes, although important, seem to be less important than they once were.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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