Your resume is about the company with whom you are interviewing, and no one else. They are only interested to know (1) what you are capable of, (2) what you can do for them, and (3) if they wouldn't mind seeing you in the office every day.
Here are some resume tips that have served me well:
- Be sure everything you include on your resume has an implication to the company and the people with whom you’re interviewing.
- A real person is reading your resume. Inject some personality through design and content. Hobbies and passions help round out your image on paper.
- Design matters. Your resume can help you stand out from the masses. Always maintain professionalism, but adding some color and having a clean design may catch an HR director’s eye from the foot-tall stack on his desk.
- Keep it to a page. Their time is precious, and you aren't that important. White space, legible type, one page. The general rule is you add a second page after ten years of experience.
- Results-driven is in the DNA of every company, and I hope it’s in your DNA as well. Big or small, results are the number one measure of success. Your work may have led to an increase in recruitment for your club; your party had record attendance; you completed a brainstorming session and the ideas became integral to the campaign's success. Include some form of result for each bullet point when possible.
- Finally, your resume serves as an agenda for interviews. Design it around your most compelling work, and tailor the work to your audience. Highlight the things you are comfortable expanding on and talking about in-depth during an interview. It will help you control the discussion, and if you have a bad interviewer it helps you to lead the conversation when they don't.
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