Resume

It is a tenet of the job search, passed down to college graduates for decades: Keep your resume short, ideally no more than one page. A single sheet is more likely to hold an employer's attention and make an applicant look organized, not arrogant.Now, however, the Internet is doing to one-page resumes what it has done to personal letters and travel agents. It is making them less relevant and perhaps even endangering their survival.White space, brevity and verbs are out. Nouns and comprehensive descriptions including obscure proper nouns, like the names of computer programs, are in. If the resume continues page after page, or screen after screen, so be it. Even Headhunter.

The Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse announced that assistant coach John Tucker (Johns Hopkins) will take over head coaching duties from Steve Duffy for the remaining eight games of the season. Tucker is a former Chesapeake Bayhawks and Baltimore Thunder head coach and has coached at Gilman, Loyola and Severn at the varsity level. At 1-5, the Cannons are off to their worst start since 2002; they have made at least the semifinals in all but two of the past 12 seasons.

I was born to write a newspaper column. My grandmother, the now-dead but still larger-than-life Jessie Peterson, wrote a column for the Herald, a weekly in Sharpsburg, Pa., in the early 1960s. So you see, it's genetic.Jessie Peterson, in her 70s at the time, would comment on who was visiting from out of town and who was in the hospital or what babies had been born, keeping her readers up to date with happenings in the small community of Aspinwall, outside Pittsburgh. An old family scrapbook contains some of the columns, now fragile and yellowing with age.The column's appearance must have been haphazard, however, because it seems that each one begins with a paragraph explaining why last week's column did not appear, and a promise to do better.

Orioles top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy has been cleared to resume throwing after a follow-up appointment with renowned orthopedist Dr. James Andrews on Monday. Bundy will begin a throwing progression next Monday, which will mark the end of Andrews' recommendation of six weeks of no throwing. Bundy received a platelet-rich plasma injection from Andrews on April 29 for tightness in his right forearm. He's been working out - doing everything besides throwing - at the Orioles' spring training facility in Sarasota, Fla. “He was cleared by Dr. Andrews as we were expecting he would,” Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said.

Fibbing on your resume is a really bad idea. First, you probably will be found out by the army of commercial background screeners that employers deploy to scour resumes, check criminal records and pull credit histories. Plus, you don't need to. Many bosses are pretty forgiving if you come clean about a minor brush with the law or a supervisor so nutty he sent you running for the door. Yet, resume tinkering is practically an epidemic. Superheated competition for jobs, especially those with big paychecks, tempts many applicants to pump air into their resumes.

To write one or not. I'm talking about the cover letter. Eileen Levitt, president of the HR Team in Columbia, wrote me recently to lament about how shocked she was "by how many people don't include them in applications, even when they are requested in ads." Here's the back story: Levitt posted a job for an executive assistant for her human resources consulting firm, specifically asking applicants to send a cover letter. But about 80 percent didn't follow instructions, Levitt says. "As a result, we didn't even consider those people as applicants," she says.

Have you ever told a story and embellished the details a bit? I've certainly caught myself exaggerating on occasion, saying, "I waited an eternity for the subway to come," or "It was the funniest joke ever." In those cases, the exaggeration is harmless. When it comes to your resume, though, overstating or making up facts can have serious ramifications. RadioShack Corp.'s former chief executive, David Edmondson, for example, left this year when two college degrees listed on his resume could not be confirmed.

NEW YORK - For about four months early last year, Steve Willett had been looking for a job. The laid-off project manager from Jericho, N.Y., sent resumes, made phone calls and attended networking events. Nary a nibble. After hearing one fellow job hunter say, "I'm a CEO, and people won't even look at my resume," Willett started thinking last spring about how to make himself stand out from the crowd. Which is what led him to think of putting his photo and resume on a 2 1/2 -by-3 1/2 -inch card (the size of a baseball trading card)

Roger Simon is ill. His column will resume on his return.

Mike Bowler is on assignment. His column, The Education Beat, will resume in March.

Hours after Kevin Gausman made his Camden Yards debut, 30 of the state's top high school senior baseball players -- most just four years younger than the rookie right-hander -- made theirs, playing in the 32nd annual Brooks Robinson All-Star Game at Oriole Park. Gausman lasted six innings. The prep athletes lasted two and a half. And then Mother Nature intervened with a thunderstorm, prompting the suspension of the remainder of the game. The teams will attempt to restart the game Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Camden Yards.

WASHINGTON - Over the past few days, Orioles manager Buck Showalter has spoken optimistically about getting some of the club's injured players back soon. “We are hoping to get those four or five guys back at some point soon,” he said Tuesday before the Orioles' interleague game against the Washington Nationals. It appears that some of those players are making significant strides. Here are updates on some of the team's DL players: -- Right-hander Pedro Strop (lower back strain)

The Class 4A-3A boys lacrosse championship between defending champion South River and Westminster was suspended Wednesday due to lightning at UMBC. The game will resume at 6 p.m. Thursday with the Seahawks leading, 8-7, and 1 minute, 11 seconds left in the first half. The first sight of lightning came at 8:55 p.m. to prompt an automatic 30-minute delay. Just as the players returned to the field and play was expected to continue at 9:25 p.m., lightning was seen in the area, forcing the suspension.

Salisbury has not missed an NCAA tournament since 1988, capturing the championship 10 times - including in each of the last two seasons. With a 14-4 record and the No. 4 ranking in the South region, the program is in solid position to extend its consecutive streak to 25 appearances. But that is not how coach Jim Berkman feels. He said the team is determined to defeat St. Mary's (11-6) in the Capital Athletic Conference tournament final at Sea Gull Stadium on Sunday and seize the automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament.

Police swarmed Towson University Friday after a report of gunfire on campus, but university officials soon said the report appeared to be false. A Baltimore County 911 call center received the report of a shooting in the 8000 block of York Road shortly after noon, a police spokeswoman said. At 12:19 p.m., the university tweeted about an "Unverified Report of Shooting" and advised students to "Shelter in place. " Officers converged on the university's Glen Garage on Cross Campus Drive near York Road, university spokeswoman Gay Pinder said, but no signs of a shooting were found.

Reigning national champion Loyola's showdown with top-ranked Denver this Saturday at Ridley Athletic Complex will probably be the first of two meetings between these Eastern College Athletic Conference rivals and potentially the first of three contests. The No. 8 Greyhounds (9-2 overall and 5-0 in the league) and the Pioneers (9-2, 4-0) are vying for the top seed in the conference tournament, and a loss for either team will likely mean a No. 2 seed. But coach Charley Toomey said a victory would enhance Loyola's RPI, which is ranked 10th in the first list released by the NCAA.

The best-seller lists are not running this week. They will resume next Sunday.

With last Saturday's 9-7 win against No. 15 and Atlantic Coast Conference foe Virginia, No. 4 Maryland improved to 7-1 and joined No. 5 Cornell (9-1) and Marist as the Division I teams with the fewest losses this season. The Terps have upcoming contests against Navy this Friday, No. 12 Johns Hopkins on April 13, No. 17 Yale on April 20, the ACC tournament on April 26-28 and Colgate on May 4, but barring some upsets, it would seem that the team has compiled enough wins to earn an at-large spot in the NCAA tournament.