write my resume

I now have a “how to write a resume” book. One step closer.

I have started my resume. I’m finding it difficult to write, however, because I hate “resume speak” so much. I’m using a co-worker’s resume as a guide, since it was re-written by our company’s human resources director, who is supposedly very good at her job. A good share of the sentences make no sense what-so-ever. I’m told they are packed with the right buzz-words to be effective, but this strange world of obtuse language confuses me. I also visited our company’s website to come up with a good, concise way of describing what we do here. I mean, I’ve work here for several years and I have no idea what the words on that website joined together in that particular way mean. Oh well. I’m sure I’ll get there.

Yesterday I passed some fliers around the office a guy from a local sandwich shop dropped off, and I’m thinking I could add that to my resume. How’s this sound? “Highly effective in promotional collatoral distribution for regional sustenance company to validation, quality assurance, technical integration and post-production departments of national corporation.” I don’t know. I may still need to jazz it up a bit. I also figure I’m pretty much the receiving mangager for this joint, since the UPS and Fed-ex people always drop the packages off at my desk because it’s the closet one to the door.

Y’all just watch. I’m going to have the best resume ever!!!

Did not write or even work on my resume this weekend. I’m thinking I need more writing-related things to put on it. Need to write a few more articles and start a blog. Starting a blog was one of the things on my to-do list for this past weekend. Didn’t get it done. I did get halfway through an refresher course on English Grammar and punctuation. That’s all I did this weekend. Not as much as I had wanted.