“What a great resume!” – Music to your ears, right? What’s the secret to success with your resume?
Start with the Summary: 1 paragraph, supported by a couple bullets, that tells a concise story about you, contains your top 5 keywords and has 2 or 3 supporting bullets. This is your elevator pitch!
Example:
Senior Engineering Manager leading enterprise and cloud software projects from initial concept through implementation and support. Skilled in customer engagement, business requirements, planning and execution. Intuitive understanding of progress and risk in the project lifecycle and able to foresee and resolve potential issues quickly and efficiently.
- Manage medium to large projects with matrixed teams of 5-20 and budgets up to $3.5M+.
- Successfully introduced and implemented Agile methodology in multiple engagements.
- Consistently reduced costs up to 30% in numerous projects.
Use metrics – prove your accomplishments. Numbers are eye candy, and everybody likes them. Every accomplishment should answer the question “which resulted in?” Lazlo Bock’s (former people guru, Google) formula is “Accomplished X as measured by Y by doing Z.”
Examples:
- Expanded product line from 1 to 4 with different customer segments, using focus group testing to achieve that “sweet spot” of usability and increasing market share.
- Created scripted custom productivity tools and pipelines, automating the character rigging. It reduced the process, from 120 clicks to just 3, a 40x optimization, saving hundreds of hours.
- Improved morale and increased employee satisfaction scores by 15% with team building exercise of cinematics and monthly production progress videos highlighting “individual heroes”.
Write like a human – ditch the ‘resume speak’ – detail oriented, results oriented – these are a given, not skills you highlight. Augmentin online What hiring managers most want to know is how you think, what makes you tick, and will you fit in their company. Here’s a bullet point that I use to add character to the document and give the reader some insight to their personality.
- What drives me: Creating the almost impossible, a sense of wonder, putting a dent in the universe. Making an impact!
Leverage your LinkedIn profile. (650M+ members worldwide now!) LinkedIn is the single largest professional network on earth and is often the first place people look for you. It’s your single most important marketing document, a place to make a statement and express your personality more fully. It is not meant to be a mirror image of your resume but an opportunity to show more about you.
If you’d like to chat about the next iteration of your resume, I’d love to help!
Thanks,
Jan OBrien
