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If you haven't updated your resume in a while, you're not alone. Unless we're actively hunting for a job, we rarely dust off this detailed list of work history, professional achievements, and education, which can be a pain to retool and update. And as for cover letters, how much time has been spent agonizing over what to say to a prospective employer in two required paragraphs–and was it really necessary to land that job?

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