In 1991, Griffin and Anderson examined the preferences of a sample of South Georgia employees regarding resume content, appearance, and format. The Georgia study was replicated with a sample of 60 hiring officials from a variety of companies in northwestern Missouri to determine if geographic location is a factor in hiring officials' preferences regarding resume content, appearance, and format. The Missouri study had a 67% response rate (versus 92% for the Georgia study). The Missouri study included a metropolitan area, the Georgia study rural areas only. Hiring officials in both states expressed similar preferences regarding resume content, appearance, and format. The Missouri hiring officials rated 25 resume content items as most important and 8 content items as least important. A one- or two-page resume on white paper was preferred. Six content items were considered significantly more important by hiring officials from northwestern Missouri than from southern Georgia: address/telephone number of employing company, name of college, professional organization memberships, college athletic involvement, high school extracurricular activities, and birth place and birth date. It was recommended that business educators update their job application/resume curricula to reflect hiring officials' preferences and that similar studies be completed to ask hiring officials for their specific resume format preferences. (The survey instrument is appended.) (MN)