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This 2 page resume was submitted by a job hunter who says,
I am looking for a librarian position with a special library or certain public libraries. I am also interested in certain corporate jobs who hire research assistants
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I’d take the soft skills (customer service, supervisory skills, communication, etc) out of your “Qualifications” section and try to reflect those in the entries for the applicable positions. I personally prefer having a “Skills” section that’s more for technologies/competencies. I’m also a stickler for parallelism, so I’d want to make sure that the actions and achievements you list under each job are in the same verb form – past participle for previous positions (assisted, mended, etc) and present participle for current positions (e.g. formatting and sending…etc). That’s me though!