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Resume Writing Tips
Just like the once-trusted objective statement, a resume career summary is as outdated as avocado-colored kitchen appliances. And thank goodness for both! A career summary used to introduce candidates to hiring managers by summing up all their professional milestones. Unfortunately, these are now so generic and boring that they waste your opportunity to make a…
Despite what you may have heard about sticking to one page, there’s no hard-and-fast rule for how long your resume should be. If you’re a recent college graduate or seeking an entry-level position, a one-page resume may be smart, simply because you don’t have enough experience to fill any more pages. However, single-page resumes are…
A career summary shouldn’t actually be a summary in the traditional sense of the word at all. You want to get attention with quantifiable accomplishments and relevant hard skills—not bore a hiring manager with the exact same information about years of experience they’re about to see on your resume. Hiring managers and recruiters want to…
There are two primary resume formats—chronological and functional. A chronological resume is exactly what it sounds like—a resume organized by date. A functional resume is instead organized by skills or major accomplishments/career highlights. Often, functional resumes are used by people who want to minimize gaps in their careers—whether it’s because they were laid off, had…
There’s a common myth about resume length. Specifically, that you should limit it to just one page. This is nothing more than a myth—in fact, employers prefer to see resumes that are two pages long! ResumeGo did a study on this very topic and found that recruiters were 2.3 times as likely to hire someone…
How many times have you felt like you were the perfect fit for a role yet didn’t get the position? As annoying as this situation is, it’s not necessarily terrible. Getting passed up for a position can clue you in to what you should be doing better. Fixing these mistakes will then upgrade your application…