For job seekers, having a well written and engaging resume is very important. A resume can open or close the door to new opportunities. Common mistakes found in resumes include spelling and grammatical errors, length, inadequate information, missing information, incorrect and overlapping dates and disorganized layouts.
A job seeker got in touch with me recently and asked for my advice on his resume. With his permission, I put together a short video to demonstrate the changes I would make to his resume to get more attention and more leads on job and career boards as well as amongst other recruiting professionals in the industry. If you want “full screen” for this video, click the square button on the right hand side of the video toolbar.
Below are two screenshots of the resume, before and after my suggested changes. What are your thoughts?
Before:
After:
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That is great! You did an excellent job cleaning up my mess! Very informative. You are right, there were many random sentences, as I had just started creating this resume and had not put any time whatsoever into origination, formatting, grammar, etc. I hope your readers don’t think that this resume represented my “best work”, because it was just the very beginnings.
I am excited to shop this resume around as now I feel confident that it is a polished document. I hope my experiences have helped your readers understand what is needed to do a simple clean-up of a unpolished resume. I will let you know the results. Thanks again!
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Hi Geoff,
That is great! You did an excellent job cleaning up my mess! Very informative. You are right, there were many random sentences, as I had just started creating this resume and had not put any time whatsoever into origination, formatting, grammar, etc. I hope your readers don’t think that this resume represented my “best work”, because it was just the very beginnings.
I am excited to shop this resume around as now I feel confident that it is a polished document. I hope my experiences have helped your readers understand what is needed to do a simple clean-up of a unpolished resume. I will let you know the results. Thanks again!