We've told you to skip "references upon request" on your resume, but you still want others to sing your praise. Including testimonials on your resume lets you get the point across that you're awesome.

Here is a link to the original resume I had paid someone to put together for me- it's longer than the first one. "References available upon request": Remove this. The objective is to get a job.

Worse comes to worse, you think, if the candidates you meet are not an obvious fit, you may have to speak with references to get more information. I want to stop you right there. References are ...

so even stating ‘references available upon request’ is an unnecessary use of valuable resume space,” says Eric Cormier, manager of HR Services with Insperity, a provider of scalable HR ...