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“Declutter Your Resumé in 5 Steps”

Filed under Resumes and Cover Letters
Posted by Libraries, August 13, 2007
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Kim Isaacs, Monster Career Advice.

If you have been off the job market for a while, you might be tempted to pick up your old resumé and simply add your most recent jobs, training, or education. According to Kim Isaacs, Monster Resumé Expert, just adding new items is not enough to bring your resumé up-to-date and help you in a successful job hunt. She outlines a five-step process for decluttering one’s old resumé:

1. Narrow Your Career Goal: Decide what it is you want to do and then limit “your resumé’s focus,” or create various versions if you have several areas of interest.
2. Condense Your Opening Summary: Highlight some of your background, but don’t go overboard.
3. Edit Your Work Experience: Emphasize your most recent work experience, and summarize anything over 10 or 15 years old into one section. Also, focus more on accomplishments instead of responsibilities at those previous jobs.
4. Consolidate Education: Recent graduates can and should include detailed information about internships, academic honors, and courses taken, but professionals with four or more years of experience can minimize that section greatly.
5. Select Your Skills: Limit your list of skills to those most applicable for the position you want.

For more advice, read the article:
http://content.monster.com/articles/3475/18269/1/Home.aspx

—Hagar Shirman