Resume Writing Challenge

How to impress your interviewer with one sentence? It’s not that hard. Formulate your core belief in this simple 10-minute exercise and use it in your resume and later during the interview.

Defining your core belief is the groundwork for a rock-solid profile or resume. The best part is that it has nothing to do with years of professional experience. Even recent graduates have impressed interviewers with knowing their core belief – and you can do that too. Get some edge over the crowd of applicants.

To make your resume work, you want to be clear about your goals. In this lesson, you will define you will get guidance in determining your career goals.

Again, you’ll not start from a blank sheet – it’s a simple 10-minute exercise guided by examples. Gain confidence in yourself by knowing what you want to do and who do you want to become.

Indeed, you want to know which online course to take to have “the right skills” for your next you. This lesson shows you how to define your own skills stack that will appeal to the companies.

Define your skills stack made of your current skills as well as your long-term vision. Do you want to be a team lead? Do you want to start your own company? Let’s define your skills stack now.

How to create a resume for Google? How to make a resume for Tesla? How to create a resume for Airbus and Boeing? Those are pretty different companies – different industries and different company cultures.

Optimize your resume for your target type of companies and stand out from the crowd of applicants. You want interviews as soon as possible, right? So, do it right the first time.

Most applicants use some free resume templates from the web. That is why people need 200 applications to get a job. They are missing vital parts of the resume.

Your resume has four main parts. This lesson will show you the main parts of your resume and which function do they have.

It’s like TV commercials – if they don’t catch your interest in the first few seconds, you just switch to another TV channel. Your professional summary is your chance to capture the attention of the recruiter.

Start from proven formulas of the existing professional summaries and adapt them to your situation. There is a list of 15+ examples of professional summaries waiting for you in the resources sections – don’t start from a blank sheet.

Companies don’t hire you because of the university that you graduated from – they hire for what you know and what you can do for them. Have you won a student competition? Are you a smiling communicative person? Do you have some student or volunteering experience to showcase?

In this section, you will write a critical part of your resume. Six bullets that tell the companies why they shall hire you and forget about other applicants. Do this right – and they will continue reading the rest of your resume.

Student projects, home demo projects, experience from a real company, internships – all of these you can include. In this lesson, you get a long list of example bullets to choose from.

The key is not to focus on core technologies you used (e.g., programming language or CPU). Other 100 applicants have those same skills – you will not impress anyone with knowing a programming language. See for yourself how to do it the right way.

Perhaps you have attended a training? Are you a member of a relevant students or professional association? Have you written an article?

All such things show your competence and interest in the given area. Use it to boost your resume. Save the time and start from examples and adapt them to your situation – you want to start applying again as soon as possible, right?

To pass through the ATS systems and be selected requires a specific format of your resume. To impress HR and your manager requires high readability and a clear structure of your resume.

Forget about graphical elements in your resume. It will not get you closer to your new job. Download our simple – but proven – template and fill in the parts prepared in the previous lessons. It only takes minutes.

Here is the truth – recruiters have about 30 seconds for your resume. It’s that simple. Close your eyes, then open them and watch directly at your resume – counting down 30 seconds – how much of your resume did you manage to read? That is what your recruiter will manage to read as well.

Watch this lesson and optimize all sections of your resume with this simple rule. It doesn’t just -help. It REALLY HELPS!

If the recruiter finds a typo in your resume, you lose points. If they don’t manage to get a great first impression in 30 seconds, you lose points.

Use or 20+ points checklist to proofread your resume, regardless of your language level or resume writing skills. You have done an excellent job so far, so don’t forget this last proofreading step to prepare your resume for the application fully.