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Anonymous  +  964985 Sun, 08 Nov 09 08:43 AM
I'm hoping someone can assist with my compound-adjective questions, as I've been hunting the web for days on these two points:

 

1. I'm doing my IT resume and want to say that I created a briefing for new employees about safe computing (staying away from bad websites, etc.)  How do I hyphenate it?  This is what I think is correct:

- Developed new employee-safe computing briefing ...

But I used to think this:

- Developed new-employee safe-computing briefing ...

 

2. For the same IT resume, I want to say that I did a communications campaign that also had the goal of getting stakeholder buy-in.  Again, how do I hyphenate it?  This is what I think is correct:

- Developed communications-and-buy-in campaign ...

(since buy-in is already hyphenated, I used the en-dash for the remaining hyphens, but it still may not be correct)

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!! Once I get these two figured out, my resume is finished!!!

 

Thanks

 

Jeff

 

Mister Micawber  +  965092 Sun, 08 Nov 09 11:55 AM
Too many hyphens.  Such jerry-built structures are for those who do not know how to write.  Restructure your statements:


Developed an internet safety brief for new employees

Designed a communications campaign to encourage stakeholder buy-ins

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