How to Update Your Curriculum Vitae
Its stunning what a well-written and correctly written resume can do to your career pursuit.
Many times this list of hints helpful in working through your resume to ensure it highlights the salient things about your candidacy to cause you to appear to be the best applicant.
- Punctuation - Pay attention to accurate utilization of commas and semi-colons. Once again, in case you are dubious, make reference to the Gregg Reference Guide.
- Regularity - You will need to be consistent together with your number usage (dates, money, numbers), plurals, and abbreviations. By way of example, dont list one date as 8/2004 and then list another date as 3/15/2004. Also, be aware of listing software consistently (abbreviation use). MS Word and Microsoft Outlook are both correct, and not consistent.
- Ampersands - Ampersands (&) do not belong on a resume. There are a few exceptions. One exception is a well-known company name (AT&T). Another exception is well-known industry terms (P&L).
- Hyperlinks - All e-mail and web addresses that you list need to be deactivated in your resume. To do this in MS Word, highlight the link, go to the “Insert” drop down menu, scroll down to and click “Hyperlink”, and on the lower left-had side of this screen there should be a little button that says “Remove link”, when you find it, give it a little click and voila! Alternatively, you can highlight the link, right click on it, and scroll down to “remove link” to deactivate the link.
Resume is an excuse to reject you. Once you send me your resume, i can say, “oh, they’re missing this or they’re missing that,” and boom, you’re out. Having a cv begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine.. That might be fine for average folks looking for an average job, but is that what you deserve?
If you don’t have a resume, what do you have? How about three extraordinary letters of recommendation from people the employer knows or respects?. Or a sophisticated project they can see or touch? Or a reputation that precedes you?
