WRITING A RESUME
What needs to be done?
Fill out the application
and enclose the resume.
Regardless of the length of life
a resume is best kept short.
Concise, well-chosen facts are de rigueur.
Landscapes are replaced by addresses,
shaky memories give way to unshakeable dates.
Of all your loves, mention only the marriage;
of all your children, only those who were born.
Who knows you matters more than whom you know.
Trips only if taken abroad.
Memberships in what but without why.
Honours, but not how they were earned.
Write as if you had never talked to yourself
and always kept yourself at arm's length.
Pass over in silence your dogs, cats, birds,
dusty keepsakes, friends, and dreams.
Price, not worth,
And title, not what is inside.
His shoe size, not where he is off to,
the one you pass off as yourself.
In addition, a photograph with one ear showing.
What matters is its shape, not what it hears.
What is there to hear, anyway?
The clatter of paper shredders.
Wislawa Szymborska
"My mother used to say that there are no strangers,
only friends you haven't met yet.
She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia".
Dame Edna Everage
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