Although not a recommended course of action, many candidates choose to prepare their resumes by slavishly copying and/or paraphrasing materials from widely-available resume templates.  By providing an outline, the resume template affords its viewer some idea as to the nature and order of information on the common resume document.

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In your quest to get the jump on your competition in the job market, you may be tempted to trawl the Internet in search of free sample resumes.  In truth, nothing in life is free.  Like the apple offered to Adam in the Garden of Eden, this temptation is one that is best avoided.
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