Reply #5: I think it's a mixed bag...

[Chan790]

Frankly they lost me when they said to ditch the generic resume and to write a resume tailored to every position you apply for. Clearly, this person has never be unemployed in a bad economy. If you wrote a custom resume for every position you applied for, you could generally get a maximum of 20 resumes/week out if you were doing it right and researching the company and position to find what information you should be including. 20 resumes/week pretty much insures that you'll starve to death before you get a new position, possibly before you get an interview even. I don't need a customized resume for every receptionist job in America because all receptionist jobs are the same and the generalized "I can do this job" receptionist resume suffices.