“It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work”: Part 6. Avoiding the Mundane, Boring, and Useless

A Revelation Your resume is not about you. What? No, it isn’t. Then what is it about? Your resume is about how prepared you are to solve a potential employer’s problems and make her life easier. Organizations hire people to solve their problems or satisfy their needs. That problem or need may be to sell …

“It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work”, Part 5 – Creating a Universal Resume (When you Don’t have All the Facts)

Previous posts in the “It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work” series have explained ways to: Match your experience to the requirements of the job listing. Align your resume’s language to the language of the job listing. The fourth post in the series discussed using word clouds to reveal important language in a job …