Priya Raghavan ·
Cutting is harder than writing and matters more
Your roles from more than ten years ago need one line each, not five bullets. Early jobs unrelated to your target role can be a single grouped line. Everything you remove makes what remains easier to read, and the reader is scanning, not studying.
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