It’s about boiling down activities to their core skills applicable to the role your applying, and demonstrating skill, experience, but most importantly outcomes of your application of that skill. Don’t lie - anything here is not about extending the truth.With that knowledge, craft a tweaked version of your resume to focus on the skills, language, and themes that you’ve identified - yes, write a new resume each time you apply for a role.People want to see T-shaped skills⁴ - deep in the skills they’re seeking, and broad to adapt to their specific industry, business, or situational needs.For each role you apply for, ensure you’ve adequately assessed the role, identifying the common themes requested.Always craft a base resume, that you will use as the underlying backbone template for every resume you submit in the future.Now before I get started into the specifics of what STAR is, and how you should apply it to your resume - I’m going to quickly go over a broad set of basics on resume writing.Įach point below is covered in very thin detail, but there are a lot of great writers and resources available on medium - so I suggest you look at articles like these from Quincy Larson, Joeseph Hill, or Austin Belcak and many others to learn more about the points below.
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The thinking is because they don’t have any direct professional experience, that listing their job delivering pizzas a Dominos (yes - that was my first job) is irrelevant to a perspective employer.īy shifting our thinking of experience from skills, processes, and tools through to behaviours and their application - we can create compelling, and industry relevant resumes that help employers connect with who you are, how you think, and how those inner behaviours can bring value to the role they’re hiring for. This becomes even more critical a recent IT graduate, as with limited professional experience I see many graduates providing resumes with very limited detail.
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