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Microsoft Office Resume Templates....Is this plagiarism?

I have a resume template I would like to use...I changed about everything on it to tailor the resume to my liking. But I just love the objective the author wrote and I can't find any other way to rephrase it. Would it be plagiarism if I left the objective just the way it is? I've been looking for the terms of use of this template but I can't find it anywhere. Thank you!

Public Comments

  1. Anytime you use another person's writing and present it as your work it is plagiarism.
  2. Employers don't care about objectives anymore so I would just remove it completely. But, if you want to keep the objective there, I still wouldn't use it just in case the employer decides to Google parts of your resume.
  3. Your prospective employer has already seen (and probably memorized) the template. By using the objective, especially word-for-word, you are telling your prospective employer, "I can do pretty good research, but I am completely un-original. I let others do my work for me, and then I attempt to take credit."
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