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Resume question..

I'm working on my resume. I'm only getting 2 days a week of work now (mostly Saturdays and Sundays) so I'm going re-vamp my resume.

 

How do you sell yourself by your skills without sounding pretentious?  

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Re: Resume question..

  • I just list my skills on the resume, because I have so much other junk to fit onto one page and I try to keep it concise (not too wordy, easy to read).

    I leave the "selling myself" for when I get to the interview or do the majority of the sunshine pumping on the cover letter.

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  • H was giving me pointers. He looked at my resume and said it sounded like I want to be a secretary other than a leader or something in a company. He said that I'd more than likely get picked for secretarial jobs by putting how many WPM I type, that I'm highly organized, and know Microsoft office. I do need to add that I have a basic understanding of SPSS (Statistical software) on there. 

    I do sell myself in the interview, but I haven't been getting interviews because I think my resume sucks. I have leadership skills on there that I should get rid of (they're from HS) and I need to make it stand out more from the other resumes. 

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  • I sometimes have an "Objective" on the top that gets changed depending on the job I am applying for, so it's okay to tweak some things as needed.    

    It can be difficult to find the happy medium of having a resume that stands out without being too crazy or too silly.     Are you on LinkedIn or Doostang?  I know some folks on there are willing to do resume help if you want someone to actually look at it and make changes.

     

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  • I was always told that it's better to cater your resume to the individual jobs you're applying for.  So if you are applying for jobs a, b, and c, you create three versions of your resume and list only the skill sets that apply most strongly to those respective jobs.

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  • I'll look at linkedin.  And I may make three, thanks sessions

     

    I'm just in a rut because I graduate in May and will have 2 Bachelors of Arts (History and Sociology) and I have NO idea what I want to do.  

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