Let me start off by saying that having been in recruiting for almost 40 years, most job hunters still do the same things in their job search that did not work for them when they graduated from college.
Writing one resume and sending it out over and over again is like the holy grail for most job hunters. To me, it is like the story of the broken watch--it is right twice a day but does not work the rest of the time.
Knowing this, I have developed some compassion for job hunters who still send out "their resume" to every job.
Often when I receive a resume that does not seem to fit a job, I send off a response to them:
