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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by jstx1 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:47AM (#33331186)
All of these things are generally frowned upon already.
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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by youngNed on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:04AM (#33331507)
I got made redundant in 2008, i signed up for unemployment benefit (UK) and part of the requirements was i had to attend a cv writing one day workshop, in the basement of a particularly dingy pub.

The guy leading it was spectacularly useless from the get-go, training us in how to use word in the most wonderfully terrible way, one particular nugget i remember him coming out with was:

'bold is particularly good for standing out, in fact I would even go as far as putting the entire document in bold'

I asked him about all caps, but stopped short of asking him if i should sprinkle it with glitter for fear i would 'fail' in his assesment of me and cut my benfits.

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by mindcrime on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:53AM (#33332272)
'bold is particularly good for standing out, in fact I would even go as far as putting the entire document in bold'

Jeeeeeebus. That sounds like something right out of an episode of BOFH!

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by Beltalowda on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:15PM (#33332609)
> 'bold is particularly good for standing out, in fact I would even go as far as putting the entire document in bold'

What a muppet. Clearly you should use the Header Font.

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