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Mar 25, 2025
Resumes are dumb.
Boiling our lives down to a couple pieces of paper? ๐งป
Stupid. ๐คทโ๏ธ
Definitely more art ๐จ than science ๐งช.
Anybody that tells you there is one right way is a liar.
Everybody has an opinion ๐ฃ๏ธ.
Here’s one of mine:
You know those giant walls of text ๐งฑ some put right at the top of their resume?
Executive Summary!
Career Highlights!
Key Skills!
Ya…here are 5 reasons nobody is reading that… ๐
1) You’re telling instead of showing ๐ญ
2) No context – just claims floating in space ๐
3) You’re just asking them to take your word for it ๐ค
4) It’s what you want them to notice; they’re thinking, “we’ll decide what’s important, thanks.” ๐ง
5) No reference point. “Strong communicator?” Compared to who, and what? ๐
“But Eric! What about ATS? Huh? What about THAT?!?” ๐ค
Stop. โ
Write for humans ๐ง
Show them what you’ve done ๐
Let that speak for itself ๐
Trust them to connect the dots ๐
Give them room to draw their own conclusions ๐งฉ
That’s how you Get Hired FAST โก
Want the full playbook? ๐
๐ Let's get your career stuff handled, find time to talk here. ๐ฒ
