No-BS Resume Guide: Build Your Best Resume
This is the only guide you'll ever need to write the perfect resume or CV. This guide will serve you for the rest of your career.
I have personally interviewed hundreds of candidates and gone through many thousands of resumes. My consulting firm provides recruiting services. I've recruited for both small and large companies.
I can tell you that most information online about resumes and hiring... is wrong. It's largely fearmongering about ATS and much of the advice comes from companies that sell resume services and templates.
In reality, to build a great resume you must first understand the hiring process and write such that you seem like the perfect candidate for the job.
After you read this guide, you will be able to make a resume better than "resume writers"... because you know more about your field and career than someone else.
In this guide I cover everything I know about resumes and how you can make one that helps you stand out from the crowd.
From how to write your work experience in the most appealing way to explaining career breaks and many tips and tricks from experience in the field... I've left nothing out.
I even talk about how to lie on your resume without getting caught.
The guide will hold your hand through the entire process and often give you specific wording on what to write to make the process as easy as possible for you.
With the insights in this guide, you will be able to make your resume better than 99% of other resumes out there. This is the difference between getting call backs and radio silence.
Note: This guide will be helpful for everyone except for people who are graphic designers, UI designers, and other "designy" fields where the design of your resume is a part of the application. Resume review services are not included with the product.
BONUS: Resume Template Included
When you go online, you will find a ton of different resumes and many resume making sites that have beautiful looking resumes with many columns and graphics.
Those are fine if you are applying for a design position (where the resume design itself is a part of the application) but are trash for everything else.
Look, if I as a hiring manager or a recruiter got only 1-2 resumes per day, seeing designer resumes would be fine. I would deep dive into them.
In reality a recruiter can often have to go through over a hundred resumes in a day (sometimes many hundreds), and non-standard resumes which have information hard to find just get tossed out (depends on the recruiter’s mood).
Your resume template has to be such that it is easy for the recruiter/HR to read, not “beautiful” to look at.
This is why resume template sites and Canva templates are not a good idea. They are not in the business of selling your resume to the recruiters, they are in the business of selling a beautiful resume to YOU.
An offering by a popular resume making website. This type of flashy resume is BAD for most serious fields (tech, finance, auditing, banking, etc.).
You have to remember that hiring managers do not want the frustrating experience of looking in different places to find the information they want. Sometimes if the information is too hard to find or hard to read (like people who bold single words in sentences)… it just gets tossed out unless there’s a strong reference who sent it.
What you want is a clean single column resume that is easy for a hiring manager to scan. They can go through it top down and get all the information they want in less than a minute.
I've included the TEMPLATE you should follow (something everyone on the internet is trying to sell you). It's included with your purchase. You can simply modify and use it - no need to pay extra.
If you're still not sure - I make your purchase risk free.
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If you do not find the product useful, just email me at admin [at] lifemathmoney.com within 30 days of your purchase and I will refund you (minus Gumroad and card transaction fees that are not refunded to me) - no questions asked.
I am so confident that the guide works that I won't even ask you why you want a refund.
A good resume is often the difference between lots of calls and zero calls.
A resume isn't everything, but it's a large part of what is in your control.
If you do not do it right, you never know what opportunities you might miss out on.
I've interviewed hundreds of people and gone through many thousands of resumes and I disqualify people all the time for things like using a weird format, unspecific work experience, unprofessional things in the resume, etc.
IT HAPPENS.
The candidate never hears about it. I never call them up and say "You're not getting this job because ______". They just get rejected and never know why.
This is why it's so important to work on perfecting your resume. It helps a lot in getting you past the first few stages of rejection. It makes you stand out.
It is the ONE FACTOR that is 100% in your control.
It is often the difference between working a $40k a year job and a $75k a year job.