Job seekers: stop summarizing your brilliance. It’s not helping anybody... For you to accommodate. For you to make yourself small. Here’s what I mean - 🔟 ways you might be over-summarizing in your job search: 1. Résumé intros The big block text at the top - that "Executive Summary" It just gives employers an excuse to be lazy... Let them read the resume - you're not a summary 📄 2. Bullets before bullets No bullets within bullets within bullets. Make your stuff accessible. 🎯 3. Interview answers You give a strong answer - then weaken it with “So yeah… I guess what I’m trying to say is…” 🎤 4. LinkedIn About section You recap your job titles instead of telling a story worth reading 📘 5. Cover letters You close with “In summary…” as if you’re defending a high school essay 📝 6. Thank-you notes You recap the whole interview instead of adding one more spark ✨ 7. Networking You deliver a 3-minute life story instead of a sharp, relevant questions about them 8. Follow-up messages You rehash what’s already been said instead of making them feel seen 💡 9. Strengths & weaknesses You give a great answer - then translate it into a cliché. “In other words, I’m a people person.” 🙃 10. Diluting results You say: “I increased retention by 18%… so yeah, it was a success.” No need to summarize greatness 🏆 When you summarize, you’re not helping. You’re softening. Blunting. Diluting. Let your words stand on their own. Let your results speak for themselves. Let people feel it 🔥 Helpful? Repost to help others ♻️
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It’s not helping anybody...
For you to accommodate.
For you to make yourself small.
Here’s what I mean -
🔟 ways you might be over-summarizing in your job search:
1. Résumé intros
The big block text at the top - that "Executive Summary"
It just gives employers an excuse to be lazy...
Let them read the resume - you're not a summary 📄
2. Bullets before bullets
No bullets within bullets within bullets.
Make your stuff accessible. 🎯
3. Interview answers
You give a strong answer -
then weaken it with “So yeah… I guess what I’m trying to say is…” 🎤
4. LinkedIn About section
You recap your job titles
instead of telling a story worth reading 📘
5. Cover letters
You close with “In summary…”
as if you’re defending a high school essay 📝
6. Thank-you notes
You recap the whole interview
instead of adding one more spark ✨
7. Networking
You deliver a 3-minute life story
instead of a sharp, relevant questions about them
8. Follow-up messages
You rehash what’s already been said
instead of making them feel seen 💡
9. Strengths & weaknesses
You give a great answer -
then translate it into a cliché.
“In other words, I’m a people person.” 🙃
10. Diluting results
You say:
“I increased retention by 18%… so yeah, it was a success.”
No need to summarize greatness 🏆
When you summarize, you’re not helping.
You’re softening.
Blunting.
Diluting.
Let your words stand on their own.
Let your results speak for themselves.
Let people feel it 🔥
Helpful?
Repost to help others ♻️