Steven Savage - Resume Plus: 40+ Ways To Make Your Resume Stand Out

Resume Plus

40+ Ways To Make Your Resume Stand Out

(First Edition)

By Steven Savage

Resume Plus

40+ Ways To Make Your Resume Stand Out

First Edition

Copyright 2015 by Steven Savage

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Table of Contents

As I write this in 2015, the resume is still a major cornerstone of the job search. Despite the inevitable discussions that the resume will be replaced by various technologies, it seems to be as important as ever. A resume-free future may indeed be ours, but I have my doubts, and it's not here yet.

When you look at a resume, the reason it's so important is because it ties into so many other elements of the job search:

* It's about putting information into an understandable format. It's still expected, it's still understood.

* It's an important for networking, as it describes your career in an expected, clear manner.

* It's important for interviewing, as interviewers expect it (and use it as a crib sheet because they interview a lot of people).

* It's important to establish your presence it's a way to summarize yourself.

* It's a "routing station" to help people find out more about you, from your website to your past employers.

The resume is not going anywhere for now. So it's necessary to not just do it well it's necessary to make it exceptional and make it interesting.

In 2012 I wrote down my theories on resumes in Epic Resume Go! a guide to making resumes truly epic like a story but I kept studying them. Eventually, I decided to do an examination of truly unique resumes called (unoriginally) "50 Shades of Resume," which was hosted at www.MuseHack.com (now part of my www.StevenSavage.com press site). This little experiment exposed me to a lot of clever ideas about taking resumes farther in design and appearance.

The result is this book, the spiritual sequel to Epic Resume Go! This isn't about resume flow and information, this is about the visual presentation and the style of resumes. This isn't about epic content this is about making your resume unique, interesting, and useful in style, appearance, and design.

Your resume may be Epic let's make it look Epic.

However, while doing this there's a chance your resume may loose focus. Some resumes are sober. Some are wild. It's the difference between two kinds of resumes I call...

Stunt Resumes and Serious Resumes

There's two types of resumes in my book: Stunt And Serious. Your resume will probably fall somewhere between these extremes.

Stunt resumes are those resumes that are crazy and unusual, that stand out not just because of their content (the content is often secondary) but because of what they are. Unusual formats, strange presentations, unique art and colors are the traits of a Stunt Resume. If you hand someone a t-shirt with your resume on it, that's a Stunt resume a Stunt resume impresses you with being different .

Serious resumes focus on content. Serious resumes are about accuracy of timelines and skills, of the data within it. Serious resumes are about communication , and impress with content.

They both have their advantages and disadvantages:

* Serious resumes are informative, but their presentations may be uninteresting, and clinging to simple communication methods can miss the innovative ways data can be prevented.

* Stunt resumes are interesting and even innovative, but don't always focus on information, instead focusing on presentation. They can be distracting and annoying.

Most resumes are neither entirely Serious nor Stunt it takes a lot of effort to make a resume so dry and standard to be purely Serious, nor so unusual and even bizarre that it's just a Stunt. What you have to do is decide where your resume sits between Serious and Stunt.

Most advice in this book can be used for any resume. A few tips would be great to enhance a Serious resume many of them at once or some specific ones will easily turn a resume into a Stunt resume. A few are pure Stunt resume material. It's up to you to make the call for both what you want and what tips will work for you.

Now before we dive into the advice, let's take a look at the parts of a good resume as a refresher.

The Parts Of A Good Resume

In Epic Resume Go, I noted that a good resume's parts are similar to the parts of a book or a film and its promotional campaign. You've got to know just what parts you're improving, so let's list them quickly.

* Personal Information: Information about you, like name and email.

* Opening Statement: How you describe yourself at the start of the resume, a quick summary that sets expectation.

* Skills: Listings of what you can do.

* Employment History: Your backstory what you did and what you achieved.

* Education, Training And Certification: More backstory, how you improved yourself, how you focused.

* Additional Details: Memberships, Publications, and Hobbies that show who you are.

(Note that these parts work best in this order as well).

Done right, each part of a resume reinforces the other; the skills you list are reflected in your job history, your opening statement reflects the attitude of the entire work. A truly epic resume comes together like a book or movie (and its marketing).

So, now that you're ready to go, let's look at how to actually use this book.

How To Use This Book

To make it easier to find the tips for you, I've organized it this way:

* First tips are categorized by given subject. If you want to try a specific category of improvements, this will let you find it easy. If you try one tip, you can also see related ones that might help you out.