What do Recruitment Officers look for in a letter of application? What is considered essential criteria for
a resume? Do Australian Human Resource Managers look for the same information as their American
counterparts ? A survey of 250 Melbourne-based companies sought answers to these questions. The following
article discusses the results.
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Huseman, R.C., Galvin, M., Prescott, D., Lahiff, J., Penrose J. and Hatfield, J.Business Communication. 2nd Australian edition. Holt Rinehart and Winston, Sydney (1986).
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