It is the nature of our species to evolve and the institutions we have made through time also must evolve in order to keep us with us. Travel, education, and retail have all grown and changed over the years to keep up with a demanding culture. While many things in business have changed, one thing that hasn’t is the need for a timely, well written resume in order to get a job. Resume styles, however, have changed dramatically over the years. Keeping up with conventional wisdom regarding resumes is one way to ensure employment success.
Styles change
Everything few years professional resumes undergo a revolution and change the way they appear or the information they provide. Once, a simple line by line listing your school and previous jobs was enough to satisfy an employer that you would be a good hire. In the business-oriented 80s resumes adopted a more spectacular style with intricate fonts, unusual spacing and multiple categories listing everything from your reasons for wanting the job to hobbies and association of which you are a member. As the century turned to the 2000s a more practical business community has done away with a flourishes of the past and...