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Category: Tips
Customers Don’t Want to Read About Your Business…
…but you can read my guest post on the Women in Networking (WIN) blog to find out what your customers do want to read about. đ
And if you are a businesswoman in Northwest Arkansas, you should check out WIN’s monthly networking luncheon while you are at it!
A Few Resumé Tips
This week I happened to see a technical resumé that inspired this slightly snarky, and not
at all complete, “do” and “don’t” list for resumĂ© writing. (Note that this was not a client’s resumĂ©. My clients bring me work in all stages of completion, and I want them to know they will never be snarked about!)
DO
List your most recent job first.
DON’T
Forget to list your most recent or current employment. (Or any other key information.)
DO
List your relevant job experience.
DON’T
Give so much detail that your resumé is more than one or two pages. (There is some flexibility here, depending on the length of your career.)
DO
Move your “education” section to the end of your resumĂ© once you have significant job experience.
DON’T
Let the last section of your resumé get orphaned at the top of an additional page.
DO
Consider a section that lists your specific skills that are relevant to the job you want. (Or rather, the job you’re applying for. I realize they may not be the same thing.)
DON’T
Make it complicated. A matrix of categories and the skills you have in each of them can sound like a great idea if you are a technical person, but if it can’t be understood at a glance, it’s resumĂ© suicide.
Bottom line? You want whoever is reading your resumĂ© to focus on how great you are at the things you do, not any flaws or oddities in the document itself. If writing, formatting, and proofreading aren’t your primary skill set, then
DO
Yourself a favor and ask a skilled friend or hire a professional to polish that resumé!
