I fell into a common résumé trap the other day
I tried to add every single important thing I did in my last role.
After leaving any role (whether through a layoff or otherwise), it’s natural to want to highlight your impact because everything you did was important, right? But realistically, you need to highlight only a few key accomplishments that are most relevant to what you want to do next.
Unsurprisingly, I was struggling to keep my résumé to one page.
🚀 Tip of the Day: Don’t try to make your résumé a laundry list of everything you did. To stand out with your résumé, try these tips:
Don’t keep everything in chronological order. You’ll see on my resume I broke it up by corporate experience and then my side hustle work (at first I listed everything chronologically and it felt confusing).
Keep everything you didn’t add on your resume on your LinkedIn so you have a record. Or create a separate Google Doc to store it.
Consider small design changes. What can you do to help your résumé breathe and help the reviewer read through it more quickly? You’ll see I made small indents on mine which went a long way.