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That afternoon I realized I was building my resume all backward
I was 32 and had been rewriting my resume for a job at a design firm in Austin for like the 8th time. A buddy who's a hiring manager glanced over my shoulder and said 'dude, you're listing your duties, not your wins.' He pointed at a line about 'managed social media posts' and said nobody cares what you did, they want to know what happened because of it. That's when it clicked I had been bragging about tasks for over a decade. Anybody else realize they were selling their experience totally wrong?
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joseph_west5910d ago
The "so what?" trick is exactly what changed things for me after a buddy pointed out the same problem. Started going through each bullet and asking myself if it showed a real outcome or just a boring task. Ended up cutting half my resume and replacing it with actual numbers and results, and got way more calls back after that.
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miles_roberts2210d ago
Dude this hit me hard lmao. I had a similar wake-up call when my buddy who's a recruiter straight up told me my resume was basically a boring list of stuff I was paid to do. I had stuff like 'answered customer emails' but never mentioned I cut response time by like 40% with a new template system. It feels so obvious once you realize it but every single job I'd had before that I was just listing tasks like a robot. Now I literally go back and write 'so what?' next to every bullet point to make sure it actually shows a result.
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