Friday, February 28, 2020
What Is a Resume? Your Guide to: Purpose & Definition (+Top Examples)
business.tutsplus.com: A resume is a formal document that shows a potential employer your skills, education, and experience. In most cases, you’ll make a resume to apply for various job openings. A resume is usually required for a job application within a company or organization that doesn't rely on application forms alone.
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I think articles like this are really interesting and for the most part helpful, but I also see so many of these articles and they all seem to say something a little bit different about what people are looking for with resumes or cover letters or job interviews. I was talking about this recently with someone about how we hear so many different things about how we should format our resumes and we really don’t know who to listen to because everyone telling us is qualified they just all must do different things. So then we were wondering how much the exact format matters because it seems like there are professionals with all different kinds of resumes and truly the resume is not solely what they are hiring off of. I am wondering what it would take to get like a rough general standard list of guidelines that people should follow but that aren’t really that specific, and if there would ever be a point when everyone agrees.
Looking around at the resumes of my classmates and at the templates in this article remind me that I really need to update mine. There are some resumes here that pop off the page and look original in addition to efficiently and effectively transferring information. When I applied to CMU, I thought my resume would stand out because there was a little bit of blue in it, but boy is that nothing in the grand scheme of things. As for the content, nothing in particular stood out as very different from the rules of thumb that we learned in production planning. One thing that all the examples had was a headshot, which I think is a good idea so the potential employer links your face with your resume. That being said, it does seem like the most important thing is to break up the monotony with some interesting shapes and colors.
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