3 Changes to Instantly Improve Your Resume

If your resume is your detailed work history with your best accomplishments, that could be the reason why you're not getting interviews. And here's how you do it. I want you to first put the title of the role you're going for at the top under your name so that anyone reading it, boom, can instantly see they're in the right place. Because you would be surprised at how many people apply to jobs when they didn't even read the job description. Next, I want you to pay extreme attention to your first bullet points under each section. So this might be your summary section if you have one, and your jobs in your experience section, and put your everything into that first bullet point of each entry. The odds that the recruiter is going to read the first bullet in your summary section or under each job is so much greater than reading those following bullets. Now, people make the mistake and they put their best accomplishment there, or the task they did the most at that job. Do not do that. Your criteria for that first bullet point should first, above all, be what is the most relevant task to the job I am applying to, okay? Then if you have several tasks that are competing for that top spot that are all similarly relevant, choose the accomplishment that is the most impressive. Relevance first, impressive second. I am going to hold your hand. When I say this, but your most impressive accomplishments may not even make it onto your resume when you write it this way. What? Because if that accomplishment isn't hyper-relevant to the role you're applying for, I know it shows your character and how impressive you are, but maybe you should delete it. Such as that massive business development deal you closed for millions of dollars. That's great for a sales and business development role. You're going for project manager roles now. Focus on those things.