I recently had to hire for two critical positions: an editor and a reporter. I put up the job posts, expected a healthy number of applicants and went about my week. What I got instead was a sheer deluge of resumes. At first, I was thrilled. But as I started clicking through the PDFs, the thrill completely disappeared. So many of these resumes looked incredibly polished, yet they were missing the core components I explicitly asked for in the job description. I was staring at a mountain of