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You show some trusted mentors your personal statement and realize that you are not so special at all.

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Standing at 11.2 font, with flowing Helvetica wordage, you were a sight I couldn’t ignore.

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Don’t add your photo to your resume. I go through 1000’s of resumes and you’d be surprised how many people do this.

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Unlike the “entitled millennials” of trend piece fame, I don’t want to be rewarded just for being alive. But I do want my life, and my work, to be rewarding.

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My resume and a letter of recommendation are attached, but here’s what you really need to know.

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What if they actually look into that Habitat for Humanity thing I mentioned? Can they access the volunteer records there? Why did I add that?!?

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It’s all about the quality of your resume and cover letter, along with using your connections, managing your social profiles and customizing your message. Getting the interview takes more than a piece of paper.

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It was on a whim that I applied for a job at The Company, during the few hours I usually had to kill before I started my evening shift at the restaurant.

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When don’t even have the solid floor of a rejection to bounce your future applications or searches off of, not even having something to catalyze your indignant “Oh yeah, I’ll show you,” futility seems like the easiest thing to hold on to.

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Most relevant and recent unpaid internship or student group position that you’ve slightly renamed to sound more important. Situation at hand. Final resolve where you accomplished a set goal (then synthesized into an impressive statistic).