Blue Sky Resumes

I’m reading the Steve Jobs biography at the moment and one of the most striking themes of the book is Jobs’ obsession with simplicity. Throughout his career, he was obsessed with making computers as simple and easy-to-use as possible. He hated technology for technology’s sake and he hated complexity, and back in the early days [...]

Many people struggle with how to start their resume. Should you write an objective statement describing the type of position you seek? Or should you just launch right into your career history, figuring that’s what employers most want to see? The answer is neither. Instead, I recommend starting your resume with a strong headline that [...]

I recently received an email asking whether we have any experience in writing functional resumes. After talking to the job seeker on the phone, I learned that he’s making a career change. He thinks that he needs to distract employers from her background in one industry so they can imagine him in another. For this [...]

One of the most common mistakes people make when writing a resume is to try and explain everything. Every detail, every situation, every technology used, every job held no matter how short – everything. But this is a mistake. The job of your resume is not to tell the clearest story of what happened – [...]

Just lately, I’ve read a rash of articles claiming to reveal the hard and fast rules of resume writing. They have titles like “5 rules of a great resume” or “10 words you must never use on your resume.” Maybe you’ve read some of these articles. Maybe you’ve even made changes to your resume after [...]

In the first of this series, I showed you how I made over the resume of a junior web developer. Now I want to take a step up and show you how to revamp your resume if you’re at the manager level. Now, you won’t be able to do everything I did, because your situation [...]

In my last post on writing a strong resume summary, Chaz left this comment: What if you are in a situation where you can’t quantify your results? I volunteer for a nonprofit. Right now I am in the works to develop a database for them to keep track of the students and the mentors who [...]

One of the key points I cover in my free resume writing course, is the need to stand out by writing a powerful resume summary. You only get a very short amount of time to make an impression and a well written resume summary can make all the difference. But I think the resume summary [...]