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“Life,” William James once said, “is in the transitions.” He wasn’t talking about weddings and graduations, but the lonely moments before, when a decision still hangs in the balance, and irrelevant details are so vivid that they’ll stick in your mind for years to come: the melted-plastic smell of a U-Haul cab; the iron sound of a public mailbox swinging shut; a paper hospital cup; a flight of stairs; a metal door-knob; a sealed envelope.<\/p>\n

“What Are You Typing There, Wes?”<\/h2>\n

Perhaps the most terrifying transition is the one between jobs<\/a>. It embarrasses us all. I still remember, at 22, printing my resume in Kinko’s after midnight so no one would see me doing it. The resume felt like a letter to Kafka’s Castle: What is it<\/em>, I always wondered, that these people want<\/em>?
\nThe answer, I fervently believed, was parchment-colored stock. While I picked out resume paper that was probably designed for D&D scrolls, my twin brother Wes \u2013 our mom told him to go with me for moral support — got on a clacky IBM Selectric and filled a page with the sentence “I am the Anti-Christ.”
\nWe were caught out by a lovely, deeply Christian high-school classmate who had once asked me to a dance but was now coming into Kinko’s to get last-minute brunch inserts printed for her wedding. She learned I was unemployed & living with my parents. Then she changed the subject: “What are you typing there Wes?”<\/p>\n

Premature Obituaries<\/h2>\n

Now when a friend sends over a resume for proofreading, which happens nearly every week these days, I remember how completely defenseless I felt at that moment.
\nResumes are horrible documents, premature and unsentimental obituaries: our lives are rarely reduced to such a small number of facts. And writing a resume is a balancing act between feeling outrageously boastful and unimpressive. Some, like Seth Godin<\/a>, have questioned whether you should even have a resume. I know many people who take whatever dreadful job happens their way just to avoid writing one.
\nThat’s silly. No one has much experience preparing a resume, but it isn’t that hard: you just have to get out of the way of yourself so your accomplishments can speak for themselves. Having reviewed thousands of resumes, I now have a better idea of what the folks in Kafka’s Castle like to see:<\/p>\n

Here’s What I Like:<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. A direct style<\/strong>: use blunt, short words. Most resumes are scanned, not read.<\/li>\n
  2. Looks<\/strong>: like a middle-aged man’s apartment. Nice and tidy.<\/li>\n
  3. Objective<\/strong>: be direct; your objective is the job you’re applying for.<\/li>\n
  4. Verbs ending in “d”<\/strong>: shipped, launched, built, sold.<\/li>\n
  5. Results<\/strong>: not responsibilities or experience — but what responsibilities and experience helped you accomplish.<\/li>\n
  6. Bullets<\/strong>: 3 \u2013 4 results per job.<\/li>\n
  7. Numbers<\/strong>: \u00ad increased traffic from Google 230%, decreased ad spending 40%.<\/li>\n
  8. Grades<\/strong>: your GPA, even if it was ten years ago, if it’s over 3.5.<\/li>\n
  9. Reviews<\/strong>: ratings from your last review, especially useful for Microsofties.<\/li>\n
  10. Honors<\/strong>: we’ll interview an employee-of-the-quarter, every time.<\/li>\n
  11. Promotions<\/strong>: if your role changes, highlight that as two jobs.<\/li>\n
  12. LinkedIn endorsements<\/strong>: persuasive, even from your friends.<\/li>\n
  13. A Link to Your Blog<\/strong>: a blog gives you online street cred. For some<\/a>, it is<\/em> your resume<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n
  14. Themes<\/strong>: whether you care about customer service or agile software, tell a consistent story from job to job.<\/li>\n
  15. Hobbies<\/strong>: I always want to meet people with fun hobbies. And that’s all a resume is: a request for a meeting. At Plumtree, we received a resume from a Playboy model. A colleague forwarded it to me with a note reading, “I’ve never asked you for anything before…” I feel the same way about cyclists.<\/li>\n
  16. Two page-max<\/strong>: if you’re under 30, one page.<\/li>\n
  17. Anything<\/strong> you did that showed initiative or passion. Eagle Scout. Math Olympics.<\/li>\n
  18. Email to the CEO<\/strong>: it takes chutzpah & resourcefulness to go straight to the top.<\/li>\n
  19. Customization<\/strong>: tailor your resume & especially the cover letter to the job.<\/li>\n
  20. Completed degrees<\/strong>: I’ve hired plenty of folks a few credits shy of a degree. Some were great; many couldn’t finish what they started. If you have time now, finish your degree.<\/li>\n
  21. Gmail address<\/strong>: or your own domain. Nothing says “totally out of it” like an AOL address.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here’s What I Don’t Like:<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Churn<\/strong>: stints at 2 or more employers of less than 2 years.<\/li>\n
    2. List of generic skills<\/strong>: just show what you actually accomplished at each job.<\/li>\n
    3. Typos or misspellings<\/strong>: About half the resumes I get are addressed to “RedFin.” For the other words, spell-check!<\/li>\n
    4. Photos<\/strong>: my favorite was of a candidate in tennis whites with a racket.<\/li>\n
    5. “Proven”<\/strong>: as in “proven leadership.” We all still have something to prove.<\/li>\n
    6. Printed resumes<\/strong>: email a Word document, web page or PDF.<\/li>\n
    7. Buzzwords<\/strong>: search bots love it, actual people don’t.<\/li>\n
    8. Wordiness<\/strong>: yes, this is the pot calling the kettle black…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      But this is just one person’s (very opinionated) opinion. There are plenty of people who have more experience than I do reviewing resumes<\/a>. What do you like to see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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