Blog Post: Your Resume Should Say What You Want To Do

Yesterday, I was at the Jobing.com job fair at the Colorado Convention Center. My colleague and I noticed a trend of people we talked to about a particularly bad habit that some people do when talking to a prospective employer. Are you in a situation where you have been doing one job or being in one industry for a substantial amount of time? Are you in a situation where you don’t want to do that job or be in that industry anymore? If this describes you, then I would recommend arranging your resume to not say what you have done, but what you want to do.

In other words, I think a lot of job-seekers will configure their resume to describe exactly what they have done and make it look like that is what they want to continue to do. There is nothing wrong with that, per se, with describing what you have job experience in. But the problem arises when your resume fits the description of your previous position so much that there is no room (in the eyes of the employer) to see you do anything else besides what you have been doing.

Do you have skills or interests or expertise in areas that you have not been doing at your current position? Perhaps there is something in your extra-curricular activities that you think would fit well for you what you want to do. All this is an effort to focus on what you want to do in the future, not necessarily describing what you have done in the past and making it look as though you are wanting to continue to do that, when in fact you don’t.

Changing industries and jobs can be very difficult for some people. You really have to think deep about what sort of skills and abilities you possess that can carry over to different industries and in fact can carry over to any industry. I think that if more job-seekers think deeper about the kinds of skills they possess that can branch out to different industries, that will make them, a) more marketable, and b) more able to look at a variety of different jobs in different industries instead of being restricted to just one type of job.

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