Chris TALARICO & Associates, Inc.

Award Winning Personnel Placement

Corporate:  (Historic Centre Park District) 401 Oley Street, Reading, PA  19601
(610) 478-1151  FAX (610) 478-1162       Toll Free 1-877-CTA-0115

General Information: cta@christalarico.com
Webmaster: Marie@christalarico.com

Our regular office hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., 
but we have 24 hour voice messaging and email.

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Seven Basic Rules of Resume Writing

Many people include in their resumes irrelevant details that fill up valuable space on the page.  Unless this information is relevant to the job description, eliminate it and clean up your resume.

1. Don't go to great lengths describing your goals, dreams, and objectives.  An employer wants to know how your presence can help meet the company's goals and objectives.

2. Don't merely talk about how you helped your company increase sales. Prospective employers will be much more interested in how you increased profits or improved profit margins.

3. Don't use abbreviations. The person reading your resume may not know what you mean.

4. Don't include information about your age, height, weight, health, salary or martial status. It is not necessary.

5. Don't write "References available upon request." This phrase is redundant and should be assumed.

6. Don't list every position you have had, especially going back fifteen to twenty years. Don't list every city you have worked in.

7. Don't go into great detail about where you went to school or what degrees you have earned unless you graduated recently. Don't list college awards earned ten or fifteen years ago, grade point average or outside activities or hobbies.