The cost of a good resume

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Sep 5, 20072 mins

Careers: Cover letters and resumes don’t get you a job, it’s true, but you still need a strong one to get in the door. Even still, paying someone $300, or in at least one case $900, to write one for you does not guarantee it will attract interviews. “Tear your resume in half,” Nick Corcodilos writes in this Ask the headhunter post. Then start over. “The only person who can write the best resume for you is you.”

From the Test Center: “You wouldn’t know it from the Apple fanboy hallelujahs and breathy press coverage, but the iPhone isn’t the only game in town. In fact, as much as many InfoWorld staffers may admire the iPhone’s whizzy interface (we are consumers, after all), we don’t think it’s a particularly good phone for hardcore business users,” Steve Fox begins in Everything the iPhone isn’t. Bearing that in mind, Tom Yager kicks off a series of reviews looking at other devices, ones he considers leaders in their categories, beginning with the BlackBerry 8800 and the Nokia E61i.

Columnist’s corner: Not many people like the idea of being tracked by satellites, New York City cabbies among those. “I feel badly for New York City cab drivers, but I’m inclined to be philosophical about their plight,” Ephraim Schwartz explains in GPS in taxis: Big Brother or boon? That question, quite naturally, leads Schwartz to another. “Where do we draw the line between our rights as individuals versus the ability of technology to strip away almost all of our freedom to behave like humans?” He also provides a sci-fi way to avoid being tracked.