The secret to getting a new and exciting job is to build
your resume around your future, not your past.
Not exact matches
Although the job market has moved to digital
resumes — and away from paper
resumes — tree - and - ink products will be
around for the foreseeable
future.
Instead of structuring your
resume around your work history, as with the typical, chronological format, you have to build your
resume around skills that are relevant to your
future job.
By centering the experience section
around accomplishments, this
resume style proves to employers that not only have you delivered a positive impact in the past, but you understand your own process well enough to repeat it in the
future.
That is why it is worth getting a professionally written
resume, at least the first time
around — this way you will see a working example for any
resume you are going to write on your own in
future.
And it is much more important to tell the employer that you can handle
future growth and crises, than it is to tell him what you've done in the past for some other employer — which is why the cover letter covers the
resume and not the other way
around!