I currently feel like I'm stuck in the CV-advice-from-hell-hamster-wheel and need some perspective from the tech community, if for nothing else than to save my sanity :)<p>One piece of resume advice that I see often repeated is "Don't use personal pronouns in resumes". Yet for the life of me I can't understand how this rule came about and nobody seems to be able to give a clear explanation beyond "it's unprofessional". Okay, but why?<p>Any hiring managers want to chime in on this? If you've seen such an offending resume, what exactly was your thought process? If you ever rejected a resume because of the word 'I', why so? What impression did it give you of the resume?<p>Besides that, what resume advice do you see floating out there that you actually feel is good? What about advice that is out there that's outdated? Coming from a small company / start-up hiring manager's perspective? I'd love to hear some thoughts.
I like the advice proffered by Ask The Headhunter: <a href="http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/habuildvalue.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/habuildvalue.htm</a> and Liz Ryan: (pdf) <a href="http://www.humanworkplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/What-is-a-Pain-Letter-and-What-is-a-Human-Voiced-Resume.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.humanworkplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Wha...</a> myself.<p>Note I am a hiring manager for a small tech team outside the startup space.