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Picking Apart A Marketing Pro's Resume

The Journal introduces a feature this morning called Résumé Doctor with a critique of a two-page document that a marketing professional, 39-year-old Dawn Jordan, has been shopping. Jordan's job as operations vp at Bank of America was eliminated in October 2008; she currently is a blogger for WSJ.com's "Laid Off & Looking" blog.

The three experts thought the document was well organized and easy to read, Sarah Needleman reports, but they also pointed to three flaws: a lack of essential details; ambiguous information; and grammatical errors. One big takeaway: Don't try to hide your age. It will always betray you in the end. But you knew that.

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