When you're applying for a job, many career experts will tell you to tailor your resume to the job description. They recommend sifting through its requirements to see what's most relevant for the roleand Levi Strauss & Co., disagrees with this approach."It's bad advice to customize your resume" for every role, he says. In fact, as far as a jobseeker is concerned, it's"a waste of time.
Internally and especially in large companies,"job descriptions are typically owned and managed by the compensation team because they're directly linked to pay bands within the organization," says Hudson.is an internal salary range for each role. That means the person writing the job description will not necessarily be the person doing the hiring, and therefore may not know exactly what a hiring manager or recruiter is looking for on the ground.
Any experience that happened more than 10 years ago, summarize it with the company, job title and date. Anything that happened in the last 10 years,"think about four-to-six bullet points per role," he says."And then of those four-to-six bullet points per role, think about a 50/50 split between responsibilities and result."
Responsibilities are the daily activities you took on, like managing a team of five, for example. Results are examples of your positive impact. He recommends using the following formula to write them:"Accomplished X as measured by Y by doing Z." Beyond that,"you just have to hope that the things that you've done and the skills that you have are what the employer is looking for," says Hudson. No need to edit your resume every time.to learn what hiring managers really look for, body language techniques, what to say and not to say, and the best way to talk about pay. Use discount code NEWGRAD to get 50% off from 5/1/24 to 6/30/24.