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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 1803222" data-attributes="member: 957">Have you tried getting some help with your resume?I don't mean any offense.  But I think you have focused on some of the wrong things.For example, I have no idea what you want to do.  I understand that you are willing to do pretty much anything at this point.  But a resume that comes across as "I'll do anything" is not good sales.  Also, the phone sales line focuses on the mundane tasks.  You got through Emory and we know what selling is like, so you don't need to tell us that you can do those things.  But we would like to hear how great you were at dealing with the public and interfacing with customers.Your strongest lines are writing skills and editing experience.  But you undercut them both by focusing on games and comics.  Specific references to things like that make you sound less well rounded and imply that your focus is strongly in that area, therefore you may be less skilled in more pratical areas.  You are good at technical writing and editing?  Great.  Stop there.Reading your resume made me think that you can type and write and put books on a shelf and you are simply waiting for your dream fiction writing job to come along.  I know you can do a lot more than that because I have seen some of your work.  But this piece of paper does not tell me that at all.Sorry if this sounds harsh.  I'm honestly trying to help.Anyway, I live like 5 miles from you and work for an engineering/consulting firm in Roswell. I really don't know if we are looking for non-technical entry level right now, but it is possible.  Feel free to e-mail me if you want to discuss.  my username AT mindspring dot com</blockquote>

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