How to get a job Thursday's!!

Happy Thursday everyone! I hope everyone’s morning is going swell. Quick life update from me, I finally got a winter coat!!! I have been braving the NYC winter (which is not that bad when you compare it to Upstate NY winters) with my rain coat (that has fur on the inside so it is kind of warm) and a thermal sweater beneath. I haven’t been freezing, but it definitely has been rough. I managed to find a really high quality Uniqlo coat on sale online right in my size (I always buy a size up for coats because I like them to fit oversized so size XL for me) and in my favorite color black!!! (Picture below just imagine it in black)

Moving on from that, I thought I would come at you with another addition of how to find a job Thursday’s! This time I come at you with resume tips!

Numero Dos: Let’s Build that Resume Up

As I have alluded to before, resume’s kind of suck. You who you are professionally and academically get summed up into one piece of paper. Just one, you don’t get two!!! So let’s just jump right into a quick tip on building up your resume (I found that doing multiple tips led to a blog post the size of Antarctica, so I will do these one at a time):

ONE PAGE!!!! ONE PAGE!!!! ONE PAGE!!!

This may seem like common sense to a lot of you, but I have critiqued many a resumes (it used to be my job back in University) and I always get people with two or three paged resumes. I am not talking about PhD students or other special cases here; I am talking about regular Joe who is a junior in University. If you are a regular college student, there should be no reason your resume is longer than a page.

I will let you know that I have heard this from several recruiters (I use to assist them in the same job) that they immediately throw away resume’s that are longer than a page. You have to think about this way any job at a well-established/start up/any job posting that it is looking for fresh out of college students will get tons of application. Most of the time each position is managed by 1 recruiter who has to read through and evaluate each resume. These recruiters 99% of the time skim through resumes and look for key words and attributes. Adding on a page to the 800 other resumes they have to look through 1. Probably Annoys them 2. Doesn’t put you ahead of anyone 3. Is what is on that second page really that important? If it was that important you probably would have put it on the first page, right?

Also remember that sometimes when you submit your resume to the general page of an employer it will go into the black abyss of resumes (we don’t speak of the black abyss). So a quick tip would be that whenever possible submit your resume through your schools career services/career website/job posting with specific e-mail address to send the resume to.

Keeping to a page might be difficult, but it is possible! I would suggest really evaluating the worth of the experiences on your resume, being the SGA president your senior year in High School might not be as relevant as being part of the business society in University. It is about quality and not quantity! Try to pack in as much as you can on your resume, but the bulk of your resume should spend time elaborating on experiences that taught you meaningful skills that can be translated into the workplace. If you find that you have a lot of meaningful experiences that relate differently to different job post, and then create different versions of your resumes! (For example one targets job openings in the tech field vs. finance).

I will stress again quality over quantity! Your resume should highlight the skills that prepare you the most to take on your new role, and this I can promise you can fit on one page.

As always stay safe and warm!