#resume

If you’ve reworked your resume recently via Resume IO, Canva, or (my favorite platform: My Perfect Resume.com) you’ll see the creative challenge in describing our work efforts, skills, and triumphs within a few words. The summary section on Resume IO rations a cruel 200 characters. The work experience for each role? Three bullets, each worth 200 characters each. (That’s about 4 well-margined lines per role.) One recruiter told me they want to read a resume within one minute. Doable for the author? I say so. 

But how? We get creative. Stay open. And we trust that less becomes more. We know that the résumé’s a vessel to whet the readers’ appetite. We also learn how to remove the superfluous and retain the substance. Like one dear software developer explained our process as we refined his resume: we find the truth; remove the fluff, and then make the important stuff fit. 

That’s what we’re here to co-discover this week; ten quick editing tips to cull your word count and make the important and most defining moments for your personal brand fit. Read from my musing on Medium.

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We talk to our fellow Neuroscience student Chisomo Banda about how you can completely switch directions after your STEM degree and even go into finance! He has first-hand experience applying to finance internships and gives us fantastic advice on how to promote yourself in order to land jobs in any field. Put faith in your abilities - you have way more desirable skills than you can think of!

Feel free to reach out to Chisomo via his Instagram or Linkedin. He is more than happy to give anyone advice about job applications, CV building, or how to go into finance from another field.

If you are from an underrepresented background, here are some firms that can help you prepare for any job interview in finance: Rare Recruitment and SEO London. 

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Job Applications & Interviewing can be the most nauseating thing about being an adult. Tune into this episode of Pillow Talk to hear all of my job application and resume hacks, in addition to my favorite tips and tricks on mastering a job interview.