Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do -- especially in tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. "It's amazing how many candidates _ themselves," he says.

"Resumes arrive with faults. Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I cross out the candidates," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?"

Can we pay too much attention to details? Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees," says Charles Garfield, the professor at the University of California, San Francisco, "We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move to something else."

Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off course 90 percent of the time," says Garfield. "But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary." Knowing where to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.

Too often we believe what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who is Bob Crosskey?
2. what does he sazy?
3. What do most not bother to do?
4. Do resumnes have faults?
5. What does Garfield say?
6. what does he compare?
7. what do perfectionists struggle with?
8. What must we constantly do?
9. what?
10. who is garfield?
11. what is his last name?
12. Where is the college?
13. what do we do too often?
14. What happens rarely?
15. What happens with little things?
16. what\ type?
17. what should everyone do?
18. especially when?
19. what goes across his desk?
20. how often?
1. human-resources expert
2. Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do
3. r to spell the company's name correctly.
4. yes
5. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees,
6. this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA.
7. little things at the cost of something larger they work toward.
8. ask ourselves
9. how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture.
10. the professor at the University of California
11. Charles Garfield,
12. California, San Francisco
13. \ what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break
14. success so mysterious.
15. rewards follow.
16. large
17. Attention to detail
18. in a tight job market.
19. appliocations
20. every day.