Exhaustion
A quick thought: 'Exhaustive research' has changed over time. It used to mean spending hours in a library, reading books and newspapers. These days exhaustive research happens in seconds with a single internet search.
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Work Experience vs Professional Experience
In reviewing a bunch of resumes this week, I noticed quite a lot of resumes with a "Work Experience" section. In each of those resumes, people had de-valuing some very valuable experience - and I write that with no exaggeration. The problem is people were looking at their experience purely through the "Job Title/Relevancy" lens and had reduced their experience down to a list of discrete, random, disconnected jobs. No interconnectedness, no narrative thread weaving through it all. As much as you may feel some jobs have no way of being connected, the reality is you are always the connection . To not connect them on your resume is to lose all that growth, knowledge, skills, impact, value, and trajectory. In other words - you lose the " You " in the resume. I recommended they start with a small change. Reword "Work Experience" to "Professional Experience" because, ultimately, every single job they had was in service of building their ...
