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This site is named Resume Revelation for a reason. The revelation that I want you to consider is this: you should view your resume as one of the central pieces of sales literature in your campaign to sell yourself to your future employer. To put it simply, you are the product and your resume is the sales literature. The purpose of the sales literature is to arouse the interest of potential employers sufficiently to get you interviews.
Sometimes to emphasize the right way to do something, it can be instructive to look at the wrong way. With that in mind, here are a five pointers for how not to look good on your resume and how not to get that interview: Continue reading »
How much time do you suppose a writer of a full page advertisement (aka, a copywriter) spends on that project? I can tell you that they spend a lot – a whole lot – of effort to produce a successful ad that grabs the attention of their target audience.
When writing a resume, there is a tendency to want to cram every bit of information about yourself onto that one or two pages. If you are just out of school it may in fact be a struggle just to fill out a page with something relevant. But, for the majority of us, the real challenge is in selecting just the right information to include…and saving the rest for another time.
Just to make sure we are on the same page…what is a resume for, anyway? There are differing opinions, but the purpose I have seen that I am in complete agreement with is this: A resume is a tool whose primary intent is to get you the interview.