In today’s resume tip, I talk about what to do when you’ve got a ton of experience and why. Reality is that your resume has about 30 seconds to impress me enough that I want to spend more time researching you.
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Yesterday a friend asked about the relationship between their resume and their LinkedIn profile. I thought I’d cover that off here in a resume tip.
I believe that LinkedIn is an extension of your resume. Your resume is the condensed view of you, the marketing brochure tailored to the job you are applying for whereas LinkedIn can be much deeper and broader.
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Everything you put on your resume is fair game. The things that you link to become extensions of your resume. In today’s resume tip, I talk about two categories of things to think about.
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As always, I’m in HR and I’m not a professional recruiter. I’m just a manager who has read a lot of resumes.
Fit and Finish means looking after all the little details. I’ve got three categories of fit and finish that I talk about in today’s resume tip.
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My big caveat with this series is that I’m not in HR, I’m not a professional recruiter, I’m just a manager who has read a bunch of resumes. The tips are my perspective on things.
In today’s resume tip, I talk about the importance of an old concept on your resume. That old concept is “Above the Fold”. The short version, don’t make the person reading your resume go hunt for the reason to hire you.
My big caveat with this series is that I’m not in HR, I’m not a professional recruiter, I’m just a manager who has read a bunch of resumes. The tips are my perspective on things.
I’m starting a little Youtube series on resume tips. Over the past handful of months, I’ve read close to a thousand resumes and there are some things that really make a resume stand out, good and bad, to me. I’ll be covering these in small bite sized chunks. My goal is one a day. Help hold me to that… 🙂
My first tip is about telling me what you did, not what you were responsible for.
I don’t really care what work people assigned you. I care about the work that you drove and the things that you accomplished. That gives me a far more interesting look into your past.
My big caveat with this series is that I’m not in HR, I’m not a professional recruiter, I’m just a manager who has read a bunch of resumes. The tips are my perspective on things.