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Re:Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes by cbcoutinho on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:55PM (#15419392)
How is quantifying your contribution to a company on a CV not taken positively?
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Re:Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes by wott on Friday October 06, 2017 @06:00PM (#15420793)
Because it smells from 10 kilometres away like bullshit only management/sales people would dare to write?

Truth is, most technical projects are failures or are thrashed for other reasons. So if everyone starts claiming a series of well-determined successes, then in all likeliness they are lying.

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