Putting it all Together

In an effort to offer meaningful job-hunting advice, I diligently surfed the web to find information that I could leverage so as not to reinvent the proverbial wheel.

I found no shortage of expert advice, much of it contradicting the insight that preceded it. This came as no surprise to me, given the subjective nature of resume writing. There is no one right answer!

For those of you who have indeed sought assistance with resume-writing in the past, you have no doubt found that asking 5 experts for the “right way” will yield as many diverse answers.

If you agree that the resume itself should be viewed as a data sheet or marketing tool, then its presentation is open to personal preference as to what works best. Hence, there is no one right answer, but there are some worthy guidelines to heed, and some clear wrong answers.

The following is an excerpt (included with permission) from the article that I found to be most closely aligned to my own professional beliefs, tips that I view in my personal bias to be “correct.”

Yana Parker's Hot Tips on Resume Writing