Resume hair-tearing

[xela]

I recently came across some really excellent resume advice, and am in the middle of redoing mine from scratch in light of it.

If in some alternate universe having my toenails pulled out with pliers were equally likely to help me find a good job, I'd be sorely tempted.

The (small, distant) silver lining is that the really excellent advice includes a coda that is head-bangingly obvious once you've heard it: Revise your resume every three months whether you need to or not.

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Please to share the advice?

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Oops, forgot to link. It's one of the manager-tools podcasts (which altogether constitute the best practical management advice I've ever come across): Your Resume Stinks!"

[siderea]

Speaking as someone who occasionally filters resumes and hires people, I am dubious about their example "good" resume and their concommitant advice. Maybe recruiters think it's good, but as a reader I'd far prefer proper white space and two pages. I'm going to be taking a highlighter to it, so, dammit, make it easy for me to do so.

[eichin.livejournal.com]

Certainly one issue we have is that the recruiters find us people based on matching the job description to the recruiter-tuned resume, but then a fair amount of the time we have to ask the candidate "can we please have your *real* resume" because the "what you want to hear" one just doesn't make any sense...