How to Create a Resume that Sells You As a Professional at a High Cost?
Get rid of functional responsibilities from the job description
Functional duties on a resume are usually the most trivial and tedious thing. 30% of the time they are copied from their job description, 50% of the time they are copied from someone else’s resume or job description, and only 20% of the time they are really good at writing them themselves.
It is advisable to write exactly the duties, not the areas of responsibility, and describe them in terms of the actions you performed. It’s about like with accomplishments, but here you don’t have to have numbers, the duties may not be that impressive, and of course they’re not one-time actions.
Before writing them, read through a few jobs to get an idea of what’s even worth writing about. Next, write out responsibilities in order of importance, with the most important (developing strategy, bringing new products to market) in first …
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