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Bottom Line on Résumés: Length Matters | Topics to Avoid at Work | College Degrees Still Worth It

Bottom Line on Résumés: Length Matters

It is a truth universally acknowledged that job seekers must keep their résumés to one page. Until now.

The genesis of the one-page résumé was based on the premise that busy managers would not take the time to view a second page. However, with AI bots screening more and more résumés, the one-page limit can now be a detriment, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal.

Today, experts explain, longer résumés have a better chance of making it through an applicant tracking system (ATS) if they contain the exact words and phrases the AI is searching for, which, unsurprisingly often makes the documents longer than a single page. Successful matches occur when a résumé is tailored to fit a job description—but only as long as the extra length is clearly written and well structured.

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Gen Z’s Phone Answering Confuses Callers | The Return of the Necktie | Are We Ignoring the Students Who Need Us Most?

Gen Z’s Phone Answering Confuses Callers



If you make a phone call to anyone under the age of 28, you may just hear breathing on the other end. Gen Z, which grew up never using land lines, seems to have decided that callers should announce themselves rather than the other way around.

This latest etiquette breach that separates the newest generation of workers from previous ones is not without reason. Gen Zers have figured out that answering with a hello is a signal to scam callers, who use the word as a signal to initiate a robocall. They are also worried that scammers may record their hellos to use in other scams.

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Gen Z’s Infamous “Stare” | What to Wear to Work | Changing College Demographics

Gen Z Has Its Own Stare

The buzz surrounding the “Gen Z stare”—a blank, unexpressive gaze often accompanied by a lack of response to a question—is gaining traction. The facial expression that many believe is unique to zoomers has their elders wondering about this cohort’s ability to deal with customers and conduct the standard small talk required in the workplace.

Several schools of thought seek to explain this seemingly common occurrence. One blames the generation’s famous social awkwardness and lack of etiquette, some attributing these traits to the time the young people spent out of school during the pandemic. Others, including Gen Zers themselves, say about “the stare” that they are “done with fake,” “genuinely hate people” and “want to be left alone,” adding that talking to other people is simply “too difficult.”

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