Hiring is a very boring, tiring and unscientific job. The resume is the most important means of attracting a prospective employer. It can literally make or break your career.
Young, innovative graduates should seek out small startups that are doing quality work instead of working for the big 'brand' houses just to be resume worthy. Resumes really don't matter. What you learn and achieve matters a lot.
There are times when the need to switch a job is high on the agenda and it gets essential to breathe a new air into one's professional life. It's pretty humane to make mistakes, but there are a few concerns which are a strict no-no when we think of switching from one organization to another.
Hiring Horror is the outcome of many fun, anecdotal incidents involving email replies, 'twit'-like behavioral patterns and other résumé spasms.
A resume or curriculum vitae is a document containing a summary or listing of relevant job experience and education, usually for the purpose of securing a new job. Often the resume is the first item a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker, and therefore a large amount of importance is often ascribed to it. [...]