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Malits, P.E.  \nPrincipal Cagley & Associates, Inc.  \nOur Goals Today  \n• Offer suggestions on how to prepare your resume to get you noticed.  \n– Understanding your target audience  \n– Presentation of your resume/cover letter  \n– Review several customary components ofa professional resume  \nMy Background  \n• Principal engineer: medium sized practice  \n– Hiring is only a small portion of my responsibilitiesnot a dedicated HR person  \n– All resumes that come to the firm cross my desk  \n• Single discipline firm: structural engineering for commercial building structures  \n– Review resumes only for people in my discipline…  \nUnderstand Your Audience  \n• Tailor your resume to the target firm  \n– This means you may have several variations  \n• Consider differences due to  \n– Firm size (Is there an HR Department?)  \n– Technical-what does the firm do? Only Building Structures? Bridges? 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