Fixing a Résumé

           A résumé must make a good first impression. You wouldn’t walk into an interview with unkempt hair and a sloppy outfit would you? Likewise, you shouldn’t send out an untidy looking résumé. A résumé should catch an employer’s eye and keep them reading. In order to create a résumé like this, it is necessary that one is familiar with the ins and outs of technology applications used to create résumés. While creating a résumé one may choose to create headers, adjust formatting, change text size and color, create text boxes, create dividers, and more. In this respect, creativity is your best asset and your ability to show creativity also demonstrates your level of digital literacy.

To me, creating the perfect résumé is touchy business. Résumés travel and speak to people about who you are, what you have done, what you are doing, and what your future holds in store for you. In short, when someone sends out a résumé, they are sending out an extension of themselves. Yet, a résumé goes through much critiquing before it is able to snag you that interview you were hoping for at that school where you have always want to work. As a student at SU, my résumé will have been critiqued by career services, professors, peers, and a website before it is seen again by a school principal. Further, nearly everybody has an opinion regarding what makes or breaks a résumé and sometimes it can be difficult to take constructive criticism, especially when it involves something so personal and the need to revise something that is close to a piece of art.

 

This post is brought to you in anticipation of the publishing of my revised résumé.