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Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication

| December 01, 1994 | Culwell-Block, Beverly; Sellers, Jean Anna | COPYRIGHT 1994 Association for Business Communication. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Getting a job is an involved process. One part of the process is the preparation of a resume. Even though the resume's primary function is simply to obtain an interview for the writer, it is a major instrument which aids in determining who will get the job.

According to Weinstein (1993), AT&T and IBM receive over 1 million resumes a year, and Johnson & Johnson gets 300,000. During the peak recruiting period of November through April, many large companies receive an average of 1,000 resumes per week. Weinstein also found that 45 seconds is the average time it takes employers to read a standard resume. With these numbers, students have to do an exceptional job of ...

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