In this episode of the Career Strategy Podcast, Sarah does a deep dive into the UX mistakes commonly made with resumes and how to correct them to stand out from other candidates.

Sarah shares:

Why you need 2 versions of your resume
How to use a strategic summary effectively at the top of your resume
Using verbs to amp up your bullet points and catch the attention of hiring managers

Timestamps:

00:29 Your resume is a big factor in your job search, mainly regarding whether you get an interview or not

01:07 Okay, so let's get into the UX of your resume and some of those myths, and then we will dive into some of those tips as well.

01:42 So at a really high level, there's kind of three users of your resume

02:18 They want to know more than just you tick all the boxes of the job description.

05:41 So let's dive into the UX mistakes that some people are making on their resume

06:49 We need a human friendly version of your resume, and we need one that I call the applicant tracking system

8:51 Your resume, it has to be formatted correctly and it needs to have the right keywords


11:42 The second kind of UX mistake that some of you might be making on your resume is that you do not have what I call a strategic summary sentence at the top of your resume.

13:59  If you do not have a summary statement at the top of your resume, this would be something you could do really quickly today to improve the user experience of your resume

14:37  The third thing that a lot of people get wrong with their resume is that the bullet points in the work experience section sound, frankly, really weak and boring to the reader.

15:43  So how do you stand out? You do it by replacing “what I was responsible for” with specific action verbs.

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