Powerful Resume Tips

Key Takeaways

Our CEO and Founder, Jessica Chen, recently hosted a Soulcast Media | LIVE event on LinkedIn. She interviewed Job Search Strategist and Author, Jenny Foss. They shared tips and personal stories about the most powerful resume tips. Here are the takeaways for VIP Comm Pass members:

• Writing a resume is hard for more people, to promote themselves properly. 
• When it comes time to write a resume, we often dial down our abilities and accomplishments.
• Our resumes should connect the dots between what the company needs and what we can walk through the door and deliver.
• We have to understand our target audience.
• We can compare several job descriptions we believe exemplify our skills and what we want to do. As we analyze them, we need to look for patterns.
• Another great way to find out what a hiring manager or company is looking for is to talk to the people who already work there.
• As we tailor our resumes for each job, we can look for keywords within the job description and use them in our resume.

• The action words we choose make a difference. For example, if we helped develop an app, instead of saying we assisted in developing an app, we can say we co-developed an app. Assisting makes it seem like we weren't an integral part of the app development.
• Our resume needs to reflect not only the skills we have, but also the impact of our work.
• When tailoring our resumes, we want to use the bullet points as a way to showcase the achievements that are most relevant to the employer.
• We need to make it very obvious why we should be considered for the role.
• When it comes to verbs, all of our previous jobs should be in the past tense. Anything we are still currently working on should be in the present tense.
• Cover letters give us the opportunity to share with the hiring manager why we are so excited about their company, and then we can shift into who we are and why we make perfect sense for the role.
• Resumes can be two pages, we need to make the words earn their space on the page.

https://vimeo.com/802873707When we craft a powerful resume, we increase our chances of getting an interview and landing our dream job.*As a VIP Communications Pass holder, you get access to these show notes we’ve organized for you, so you’ll always remember what was shared. No worries if you didn’t take down notes. This is for you to keep!*