When you graduated college or grad school, your college
placement office taught you how to search for a job.
College
placement offices taught you to write a one page resume, taught you that all your best stuff should be on the first page (if for some reason you went to 2 pages), because they knew your resume would be read on paper.
We learned most of our body of knowledge of job search from placement and career offices, starting with our College / Grad school placement office — even High School
placement offices teach much of the same stuff.
Not exact matches
It's because your college
placement office really
taught you how to write a resume that would be published... in a book... that the
placement office sold to employers (yes, this still happens today, but today it's usually an e-book).
It's what we're used to, it's what we were
taught by our college
placement office, it's reinforced by most career coaches, outplacement firms and career authors.
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taught by our college
placement office, it's reinforced.
Since our college
placement office published grad resumes in a book (or e-book), which they sold — they
taught us to present our best information on page 1.
What we learned as children and from our college
placement offices has
taught us to be humble, not brag about ourselves and to describe ourselves as being the same as everyone else.
Even the core of our body of knowledge of job search,
taught to us by our college / grad school
placement office,
taught us to look just like everyone else.
It's what we're used to, it's what we were
taught by our college
placement office, it's reinforced.