Employers face a daily avalanche of poorly constructed resumes and weak covering letters.
Unfortunately, writing a resume is viewed as a test of one's literacy and there's a lot of pressure on you to write it yourself. Putting together a resume is as much a design and construction job as a test of your writing skills. For most job seekers, it is a nightmare experience. For 50 years, we've been told to write our own resumes and then ask an English teacher or placement officer or business executive or friend to critique it. Of course not.