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Some job seekers are now preparing a supplementary résumé in the form of a tweet (140 characters or less)

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Some job seekers are now preparing a supplementary résumé in the form of a tweet (140 characters or less). Given that the résumé is quite short, much like the opening line in a cover letter, you must describe your qualifications in a manner that grabs attention quickly. Your job is to create a tweet that you would conceivably use as a job résumé. If you have a Twitter account, see if your résumé fits the 140-character limit, or use the character-count function in your word-processing program. You might need several tries to deliver the message about yourself you really want. It could prove illuminating for several classmates to compare their tweetformat résumés with each other. A practical application of this exercise is that the next time you are job hunting, you might post your tweet-format job résumé on Twitter.