Happy Resume´ Month!
You won’t find a special section of greeting cards in your local Hallmark Store to commemorate the occasion; nonetheless, September is recognized as National Resume Month. Now I don’t know how they come up with these “tributes”, but I will take the nudge and remind you to get out your resume and check to see if it is worthy of the honor.
You might wonder why you should bother since you are content with your present employer. But you must admit that you don’t know what the future holds and it’s possible to be out on the street faster than you can say “downsizing”. Or almost as sad, your real dream job could be posted and filled before you can locate and elongate your one-pager. If those scenarios aren’t reason enough to go immediately to the file cabinet and start searching, why not take a more strategic view for having a polished and ready resume?
Every worker is like a company, You, Inc., if you will. A resume then is a sales brochure for the product you are offering. It should be honest and forthright, but it should also highlight your best features and, along with the collateral cover letter, offer the potential “buyer” (hiring manager) a tailored solution to his problem. It won’t tell the whole story; but it must be enough to convince the buyer that this is a brand worth examining more closely.
So how effective is your current sales brochure? Looking at it from the “buyer’s” perspective, would you want to take a closer look at the product it promotes? If not, stay tuned for future posts in honor of National Resume Month and have better marketing material by the end of September.
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