I'm glad they are teaching students about resume writing, and hopefully the professors are versed in hiring outside academia. I write hundreds of resumes a year

I'm glad they are teaching students about resume writing, and hopefully the professors are versed in hiring outside academia. I write hundreds of resumes a year for my clients, and a high percentage of young clients are using really poor resumes when they engage my services. It seems many new grads are being drawn to highly-visualized resumes with fancy templates, often featuring a bar graph for skills ranking (some ranking themselves as "8 out of 10 in JavaScript", which comes across as laughable and out of touch). My feelings on memorizing data structures aside, the resume lessons may at least help some grads get interviews that they wouldn't have otherwise, and that's a good thing.