How they are ever with us, in any talk about the job-hunt, whether in magazines, newspapers, or in books, or on the Internet. For the employer, the virtue of resumes is that they offer an easy way to cut down the time employers have to spend with job-hunters.
Resumes are obviously here to stay, if some employers have anything to say about it.
For the job-hunter, resumes also appear attractive. After all, they offer an easy way to approach an employer. No maddening phone tag, no frustrating attempt to get an appointment with someone in authority, no taking the bus, or driving the car, or sitting in someone's outer office for a blue moon, only to be rejected after all of that. No, with resumes you just take a piece of paper, summarize your qualifications, and mail it to the organization, if you have a particular target in mind. So, let's look at what is never discussed, namely, the three dangers of resumes.