Quick Tips to Modernize Your Resume, 31/08/2021
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:
- The foremost item that Sheila thinks might be there in the resume is to limit the job history.
- The second tip that the host discusses about is to avoid potential things that could cause ageism. Unfortunately, assumptions that people make about age referred to as ageism becomes a problem.
- Sheila recommends dropping off email addresses including AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo as they are considered outdated and shift to something that's of much more importance like Gmail.
- The host states that 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.
- Sheila says, "This really is a particularly good time to refresh your resume and to start looking for that new position."
- Sheila points out that it is a great time for people who are considering switching careers, to make a transition.
3 Key Points:
- Sheila reminds not 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.
- So beyond limiting occupational history that contains dates to 10 or 15 years Sheila also suggests omitting 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 She also says that showcasing objectives on top of the resume is a very outdated practice and should not be used anymore.
- Sheila mentions that 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.
Tweetable Quotes:
- "Now you wouldn't want to do that for seven different employers that would fall into this additional experience section so you want to be judicious here." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
- "This could potentially open you up to ageism, with certain age identifying resume elements." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
- "Instead, we want to shift our mindset, we want to shift that top part of the resume to be our summary of qualifications rather than here's what I want." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
- "So you want to make sure that you're kind of finding those ways to showcase that you're able to collaborate and work effectively virtually." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
- "I encourage you to take some of these tips, put them into play and get that resume, refreshed." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
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