What you need to know about a resume by HR professionals

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A resume is one of the most important documents in your life. A well-written resume will help you find your dream job. We are publishing a translation of an article by Lily Chang, MIT Director of Human Resources. In it, she talked about the five main mistakes that people who try to get a job make in their resume.

A resume is a very personal document. Before looking at a resume, I always ask the owner for permission to make notes on it. Who am I to edit your life story?

After talking to a huge number of job seekers, I realized a few things.

I understand your desire to stand out from the crowd and make a creative resume in InDesign or Photoshop. Overpower yourself and don't. As we wrote in the previous article.

Unless you're trying to get a job as a designer or artist, keep your resume as simple and standard as possible.

In other words, no tinsel or strangeness. Instead, spend this time editing important information: your skills, work experience, and education.

Cliché phrase: "I want to work in an innovative and fast-growing company."

Cool. What can you give this company? Prove that you have the required experience, that you have the right skills for the job, and that you can truly be of service. Otherwise, who needs you?

There is often controversy about how much time a recruiter or HR spends on reviewing one resume. Almost everyone agrees that no more than 20 seconds. What does this mean for you?

Keep your resume as clear, simple and short as possible.

Don't use too small fonts, keep lists short, and write only after the fact. Make yourself useful and irreplaceable, and then you can expect to be liked even.

This means that you need to use fewer complex terms and more simple and understandable words that will be clear not only for professionals. The experience of developing complex algorithms or the global research of nanolasers is cool, but not for HR.

Try not to use jargon and focus on the result. And only then, when you get through HR, you can show off your knowledge.

Check your contact information. Then check it again. Once again. Mistakes happen to each of us, and if you make at least one mistake in your contact information, you will lose the chance to get a job.