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Your Resume Sucks.

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Most likely that’s a true statement, but you’re probably asking yourself why? Well it could be a very good resume, showing all of your work experience and every little thing you have done that makes you the perfect person for that job you applied for yesterday. The sad news is, according a new study, the guy (or girl) you gave it too probably only spent about 6 seconds looking at it. Kind of makes all those hours of obsessing if you should put your high school math award as a qualification pretty worthless huh?

How about putting that awesome picture you love from 10 years ago on your Linkedin profile? That’s a no-no as well. A job-matching company named TheLadder studied employers eye movements when looking at resumes and found 3 very interesting facts. Check them out after the jump….
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7 Awesome Jobs You Don’t Have

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Now I hate to rub it in, but my job is pretty awesome and comes with very little stress. If you want a cool and fun job you should look into being on the radio. Unless you want to make good money, then just stay where you are. There are some pretty BAD jobs out there as well and as your reading this you are totally agreeing because you probably work there. So just because I thought it would be fun to kick you while you are down, I found a list of the 7 most awesome jobs. Check out the list after the jump and tell us which one you would choose!

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Facebook KNOWS You!

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Although you may watch what you say or do on Facebook because of your job (Tell me about IT!) it still may give your employers more information about you than you originally thought.

Researchers from Northern Illinois, the University of Evansville, and Auburn found that looking at people’s Facebook pages for just ten minutes could predict how well they’d do on the job.

They had people in Human Resources look at the Facebook pages of job applicants and grade them on traits like intellectual curiosity, conscientiousness, agreeability, and whether they were extraverted.

After six months on the job, supervisors evaluated the candidates on the same traits . . .