Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR
One thing that can take a while to remember, if you've generally ran with the "gifted" crowd in school (Read: top 10% reading comprehension scores on the SAT), is that most people are just uncomfortable reading, it takes them a lot of time, and they don't like doing it. It's almost always a good idea to shorten/simplify any text meant for an unknown audience.