PERSPECTIVES → VOICE IN THE CROWD Issue 1079 · September 17, 2025

Yidden Talking Good

This is the benefit of the résumé system, and the gift it gives us: It’s a framework built on Yidden talking good about one another

Yidden Talking Good

We are creative, resourceful, and inventive, the people who invented slow-release fasting pills and created a Minchah area on the Thruway and had seminary girls flying out of Sharm el-Sheikh three days after Ben-Gurion Airport shut down.

It’s beyond me, therefore, how we still rely on the least creative, least effective mode of intelligence-gathering before making the most important life decision of all.

I refer, of course, to the résumé.

Even the word is misleading. A résumé usually refers to a document that presents a person’s background, skills, and accomplishments, usually for the goal of getting a job.

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