In today´s episode of 'Professional Success Podcast',your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader gives some vital tips on updating and reconditioning your resume. She stresses that it is a great time for people who are considering switching careers, to make a transition.
Episode Highlights:
- Avoid potential things that could cause ageism. Unfortunately, assumptions that people make about age referred to as ageism becomes a problem.
- Drop email addresses including AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo as they are considered outdated and shift to something that's of much more importance like Gmail.
- Due to the recent pandemic situation, it could be a really good time to play-up your remote skills in the resume. Even if a person doesn't necessarily have experience working remotely, there are other transferable experiences to highlight in this section.
- "This really is a particularly good time to refresh your resume and to start looking for that new position."
- It is a great time for people who are considering switching careers, to make a transition.
3 Key Points:
- You don't need to include every single thing you did on your resume. She says you can always include other important things in a cover letter or discuss those during an interview conversation.
- Other than limiting occupational history that contains dates to 10 or 15 years you also want to omit any graduation dates omitting any graduation dates. She also says that showcasing objectives on top of the resume is a very outdated practice and should not be used anymore.
- Beyond people switching positions within their industry, the current job market could really also provide prospective job seekers with the ability to test a new career path. This current pandemic situation is highlighting more companies to consider transferable skills and skills-based hiring, as a way to hire new talent.
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