A diet for your resume
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My toastmasters speech on cutting the fat from your resume.
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A diet for your resume
- 1. I am an enthusiastic, motivated and passionate individual who is goal driven and keen team player.
- 2. CV: Cutting the fat
- 4. Why not? Tips and action plan
- 5. Why not? 4 reasons to kill “resumese” and buzzwords
- 6. 1) Setting yourself apart
- 7. Top 10 overused buzzwords in LinkedIn profiles (USA) Extensive experience Innovative Motivated Results-oriented Dynamic Proven track record Team player Fast-paced Problem solver Entrepreneurial
- 8. 2) Proof… and meaning!
- 9. 3) Keywords and database mining
- 10. 4) Shorter
- 11. Tips and action plan
- 12. Nouns ! AdjectivesShow, don’t tell
- 13. Action plan Get rid of overused buzzwords Add precise facts Ask yourself: “Could anyone write this?”
Editor's Notes
- Ladies and gentleman“I am an enthusiastic, motivated and passionate individual who is goal driven and keen team player”This is the kind of sentences I read more than 20 times a day in my recruiting job. A standard and general agglomeration of fancy business talk/jargon buzzwords. Usually it includes “motivated, enthusiastic, results-oriented, team player” and so on…
- Today my speech is going to be about this fat in your resume, why you should get rid of it, and how.
- By the end of the speech, maybe tonight or next time you will be updating your resume, you will remember this “cutting fat” speech and delete 25% unnecessary material of your resume
- I will first start by tackling the “Why” you should get rid of it, and then show you how by giving some tips and laying out an action plan.
- The first reason why YOU shouldn’t do it is… everybody does it!
- LinkedIn, website where people upload their resume, analyzed the most overused buzzwords… I am sure you have least have one of them in your resume.
- Most of the time, these buzzwords don’t prove anything. Saying you are a fast learner, have great leadership skills, etc.And sometimes, it does not even mean anything: eg a positive can do attitude… how else can a can do attitude be?
- Your resume goes into a database.