Standing in a career fair line? Need your resume noticed in 20 seconds or less?
Long time, no talk! Hello, readers! I send you my best wishes as I type this email with 2000 resumes on my desk. This is the busiest time of the year for college recruiting, and I love every second of it. I have been doing a lot of travelling to the east coast and will be there for the entire month of October!! I will be in NYC 2x, Pennsylvania, Boston 2x, New Hampshire and everywhere in between. It’s a lot of fun, and I am so excited to meet many of the amazing readers in person.
Since I have been working career fairs lately, I wanted to let you know a couple of quick resume tips. These seem pretty common, but they are ones I can never stress enough …
1. BRAG! This is your time to show off all of your amazing accomplishments. Recruiters want to see all of the great things you have done … Be proud and show it off on a resume.
2. No 6 pt font. Seriously … I already wear glasses, and I understand that you may want to save paper - but it's well worth my eyesight to make it at least 10 point font. And hey, you can give me an early birthday present and make it 11 … :)
If you would like to hear more of my favorite tips and tricks (which share some similarities and differences to Lisa's tips), I recently hosted a webcast of “How to Get Your Resume Noticed." Check it out. It's around 1 hour long but you can look through the slides and hear some great Q&A. And it's appropriate for college as well as industry candidates.
See you all soon on my east coast travels!
Janelle
5 Comments
James said:
Alternatively, if you're really short of space, and going down to 4 pt text hasn't helped, there's an old trick for handwritten letters which can come in handy: having filled the page with lines in one direction, rotate the page 90º and type over the top of it at right angles...
On a serious note, good luck with those resumés Janelle, and enjoy the travelling - I visited Boston, NYC and Providence myself last month (a vacation with my little brother). Now, if I can just arrange a visit to Redmond...
Mary said:
Is a credit check done during the background check? Would bad credit take you out of consideration?
James said:
It seems like you guys hire mostly well known schools. As a recruiter, how does the school affect a person's chance of even being considered?
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Rajat Kheria said:
Are you coming to johns hopkins also??