# So Beyond.com did a critique of my resume...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-beyond-com-did-a-critique-of-my-resume/704312>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 11, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-beyond-com-did-a-critique-of-my-resume/704312 "2014-11-11T05:41:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-beyond-com-did-a-critique-of-my-resume/704312/1 "2014-11-11T05:41:57Z")

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And I’m looking in askance at it somewhat. Does an actual human look at it, and if so, how much? I ask because of two things in particular: warning me about using acronyms because I used “Aug” in a job tenure date (yes, as in August) and recommending that I move my education to the bottom when it already IS on the bottom.

It did have a few things to muse over, but it’s hard to implement some (a lot of what I do does not have quantifiable effects on my employer or projects — if it did, I’d probably still be at my very first job). But this did make me wonder, especially since the “service” is both free and automatic, and was done within a couple of days.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-beyond-com-did-a-critique-of-my-resume/704312/2 "2014-11-11T11:49:47Z")

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Wait, did they actually call Aug. an acronym or did they call it an abbreviation? If they called it an acronym, I’d be tempted to ignore everything else listed.

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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2014, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-beyond-com-did-a-critique-of-my-resume/704312/3 "2014-11-11T11:56:44Z")

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Now that I reread, I misread that section: it’s about acronyms, _abbreviations, and contractions_. Because many abbreviations aren’t universally accepted, apparently. (I only remembered the acronyms because it also warns they vary by industry and company.)

So either way, I smell heavy boilerplate, but I don’t know to what extent.