How To Write A Resume

Here’s a scenario that trips up many candidates: You’re about to have a phone screen, or even a face-to-face interview, and you have one of the following difficult situations on your resume:

You’ve been out of work for a long time, (a gap in your work history).
You were terminated (fired) from your previous [...]

According to several sites on the net (i.e., possibly apocryphal) personnel executives of 100 major American corporations were asked for stories of unusual behavior by job applicants:

Said he was so well qualified [that] if he didn’t get the job, it would prove that the company’s management was incompetent.
Stretched out on the floor to fill out [...]