POP MY RESUME

How Should I Make My Resume “Pop”

Well, for one thing, your resume should contain accomplishments designed to attract the attention of a VP of Sales. I’ve said before that the accomplishments should not be what YOU think is important, but what the VP thinks is important. Make sure these achievements stand out- without elaborating on them to the nth degree.  You do that by assigning bullets to your achievements.  Try to isolate your achievements from your job description.  Many people lump them together and that buries the accomplishments.  Only accomplishments should be bulleted.

Many so -called “Certified Resume Writers” ( what is that, exactly?) insist on putting fancy colors, icons, graphs, charts in order to make the resume “pop.”  Fine. But if the resume has no meaningful content,  it is like putting lipstick on a pig..  Also, they figure that the more they put on a resume, the more attractive a candidate you will be.  Not so.  Managers make their decisions in 30 seconds or less.  They want to see where you worked, when you worked there, what your brief job description is, and WHAT YOU ACCOMPLISHED  in an easy to read and bulleted format.  That’s what makes the resume pop. That’s what gets you the interview.

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