Top 5 Resume Tips RANKED

Hello everyone, this is Self Made Millennial. I'm Madeline Mann and I've got my radio voice on today because I'm bringing you the top five resume tips from previous Self Made Millennial videos. You all did the voting, now I get to do all the gloating. Alright, I'm not gonna do the whole video in that voice. Thank goodness. So I'm gonna show you clips from some of your favorite resume tips that have really changed the game for you. And now these clips are gonna be short, so I'm gonna link the full videos in the description so that you can learn more. Let's get.

Alright, the number five tip is about your location. If you are applying to anywhere that.

Is not in the city you currently.

Reside, then you've got to do this to make sure your resume does not get rejected.

If the job that you're applying for is not in the same city that Your resume or LinkedIn indicates, then make sure on your resume that you state that you're either open to relocating there or already planning on relocating there.

Alright, moving into the fourth place tip, it's about your objective state only. Put an objective statement if you have something a little bit irregular about your.

Resume that you want to explain. Use an objective statement to explain irregularities in your resume such as you're changing industries, you're shifting your career, you're coming back from taking time off from working. It's great to acknowledge this right off the bat so that they don't toss out your resume thinking that you're misguided and applying to the wrong places. An example could be product leader who's moving from the entertainment industry to the fintech industry to build products she believes in. Another example is if your most recent experience was in a different country. Maybe the recruiter will assume, oh, there's going to be visa issues or there's going to be relocation issues and so you want to address that right up top so that they can get rid of those worries and focus on how qualified you are, such as green card holder headed back to Los Angeles to obtain a position as a data scientist. Nice save.

Sliding into spot number three is how.

To curate your resume to be only.

Focused on the top, most important positions to the role that you are applying to. Remember how a resume should only be one page? Well, here's how you do it. To show your job history, I recommend.

Focusing your resume on three to five.

Of the roles you've had in the past that are most relevant to the.

Experience of the job you're applying for.

For the Less relevant roles that are maybe in between those roles or after them.

You can either leave those off or.

Just put one line indicating the dates.

That you were there, the name of.

The role and the company, but without.

All the details of bullet points underneath.

It's also common to create an early.

Career section which I highly recommend where you say something like, you know, 2005 to 2011, various account manager roles climbing to speak.

Number two is how to optimize your.

Resume with the right keywords so these.

Resume scanning robots will pick you. Now I talk about how to know what keywords to put on your resume, where to put them, how often. I'll give you a quick taste of that tip here, but I recommend you go back and watch the full video so that you can get all of the details on this.

So what keywords should you include on your resume? Well, I think that you should go find at least three or four job descriptions that really fit the kind of role that you want and they're all very similar. Take all of the job descriptions, take all the text and paste it into a word cloud generator and I'll link the one I use in the description. And so I'm going to show you an example of a word cloud I generated from four UX designer job descriptions. This word cloud tells us the keywords that we need to have on a resume, like mockups, agile, sketch research, wireframes, as well as some soft skills like creative collaborate communication. Now that we know the most important keywords to have on a resume, let's now tailor our resume resume further to a specific job description. So if I want to apply to this designer role, I take a look at the description. I see that actually we have a lot of these keywords already. We have agile, we have wire framing, we have sketch, but we're missing some really important ones such as having experience designing for these kind of platforms and apps. We don't have glyphy, we would need to put that as well as we don't have anything about prototyping. So we would likely get rejected by these bots if we don't make these updates because to our resume.

And we've made it to spot number one, the moment you've all been waiting for. This tip has actually caused a lot of people to rethink the way they approach their job search. I'm totally serious. Like this tip came as like a landslide first place. So the tip is to focus your job search with first prioritizing the industry, then the company, then the role. Now I understand this is not exactly a resume tip, but I found that when people focus on this industry first mentality towards their job search, their resumes are far stronger. Guaranteed. This tip is also a bit complex, so I recommend you watch the full video, but here is a quick clip to get a feel for it.

There are three categories you have to address in your job search. Industry, company, and role. Amir spent most of his time here focusing on roles that seem to fit him without really having purposeful direction on exactly the types of industries and companies that would be best. If you're like Amir, then reverse your search. Focus on industry, then company, then role. I'll walk you through each one. Industry is the most important part of your job search for three reasons. First, it's what you're going to be focused on every day. The industry is what you're going to be talking about day in and day out. Reason number two Industry expertise matters. Do not underestimate how much effort it takes to learn a new industry. And the third reason to focus on industry you is that industry specific resumes and cover letters get more interviews. You know, it's pretty obvious to me when people are just doing the resume spray or they're not really paying attention to the company or industry, they're just shooting their resume off to tons of companies that are hiring for similar roles and just hoping someone will pick up the phone and call them. These people are frequently passed over because they seem to not have a lot of direction or passion for the industry. But the people who seem very deliberate, they have thought about this. They know that they want their next.

Career step to be in this direction.

Of this industry that's very compelling and those people get the interviews.

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