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As the author of the bestselling books on Amazon for both Interviews and Resumes, I’m pretty impressed. Few university career guidelines are presented as readably and attractively as this one. It avoids the trap of suggesting “active verbs” and instead suggests a quite effective list of “action verbs.” And the summary of the differences between CV and resume are the best I’ve ever seen.

A really terrific job by MIT Career Development.

My works on the topics as reference: https://www.amazon.com/Ladders-2018-Resume-Guide-Practices-e...

https://www.amazon.com/Ladders-2018-Interviews-Guide-Questio...



What's the difference between 'active verbs' and 'action verbs'?

Edit: Sorry I should have read further down - page 31


As a casual lurker of a cool website news.ycombinator.com, please stop shilling


The links are relevant, posting them is not a repeated pattern, and mcenedella has been a good HN contributor for many years. Therefore his comment was just fine.


Thanks. I thought the facts were relevant to the comments, and that students wondering if this were good advice, would benefit from the reference. I’ve been contributing here eight years so I know moderators and community would flag anything actually self promoting.


Self-promotion only becomes a problem here when it's repetitive, and especially if the thing being promoted is out of context. Otherwise it can fairly be described as sharing one's own relevant work—obviously a good and on-topic thing for Hacker News!




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