My resume was always a bit incomplete because I just recently graduated.
Now it is done and I am proud. 5 years ago

I think this thing is completed. I like the resume I created, and I feel like it is a bit more personal than most of the ones I have seen. It accomplished it’s goal, and I start work next Monday… So other than tweaking my resume a bit, I feel good about it :) 5 years ago

I do believe I have a strong one but I am constantly updating it. :) 5 years ago

Finished all the school applications and set up my resume for the working world. It’s standard but I usually play with it depending on the job, emphasizing whatever (: 6 years ago

The whole grad school application thing has been a process. I recognized I have issues writing about myself and trying to sell myself. Not so much low self-esteem so much as just feeling my age.

I’m almost there though, with a lot of help from Dave. 6 years ago

like created, planned, initiated, designed, facilitated…
now I have an awesome job that I enjoy everyday! 6 years ago

Just graduated, need job.. so this must be done ASAP… 6 years ago

...So, setting aside grand experiments, today I focused on creating a barebones, functional resume conforming to the accepted wisdom, as simple as possible. I was imperfectly successful, but it was an interesting experiment—somewhat akin to writing haiku. Arbitrary and annoying and usually clumsy, but instructive nonetheless. 7 years ago

Of course, the problem with writing a resume such that I feel good about it is that if I actually succeeded, it wouldn’t look like a resume. And while I don’t mind being crazy and experimental, it’s a hell of a thing to do so while submitting applications to jobs. Perhaps I should design a series of experimental resumes and send them to jobs I don’t want, with little return-mail cards requesting feedback on the resume itself. 7 years ago

I’m probably going to be submitting my resume again, pretty soon, so I should probably invest a bit more into this one. 7 years ago

I haven’t even graduated yet, but I’ve put a lot of new things on my resume already. I feel like it is as good as it can possibly be right now. 7 years ago

I think I have my resume looking better than it ever has. It helped that I did well in school last semester. I’m not ready to mark this goal accomplished, however. 7 years ago

I’m bumping this up in the order on my list of things, because it’s really time I put some more work into it. Some weird things are happening at work, and I’m probably about to be transferred, so now is as good a time as any to start putting feelers back out; I’ve also just gone through an evaluation process at work, which should put me in a good headspace for resume stuff.

Of course, the site were I previously kept my resume is currently fucked, so any new version may not appear online until I get this goal squared away. 7 years ago

Given that my position with the district seems to be slightly less stable than before, owing to some layoffs in my classification, I may need to do some more work, soon, on this goal. 7 years ago

I can give you some suggestions if you have a ‘challenging’ history and want to present it in the best possible way. 7 years ago

If u need a job u have to do this! 8 years ago

I began thinking of my resume as a living, breathing document. Rather than something I pull out when I’m looking for a job, I update it every 90 days, sometimes more. The reason is that it puts me in a mode where I have to have something new to say every time. ‘What have I done in the last 90 days that’s resume-worthy?’

I also keep it to one page, which limits me to only a few ‘slots.’ It shows I can condense information, and it forces me to always think in terms of besting what I’ve done previously. When I complete a new project, the goal is to have it be better than anything else on the resume. It goes to the top, and the item on the bottom drops off.

We’ll see how long I’ll be comfortable keeping it to one page. But for now, it’s been a great way to make sure I’m always improving. 8 years ago

I can’t stand the style and standards of resume writing; I want to be able to write a resume such that the resume is a piece of real writing, with the potential of being good, and not merely a collection of heavily spin-doctored sentence fragments.

I plan to locate some of my thoughts on this, and possibly some attempts, at http://unlikelyglossary.objectis.net/workish/ResumEnglish

Note:
I am gratified by experiments such as this: http://usabilityworks.typepad.com/beginagain/ 8 years ago