Deviant Thinking with Jennifer Thompson

Career Advice That Breaks The Rules. Career and Innovation Coach, Jennifer Thompson is a Deviant Thinker who is always willing to break the rules. Jennifer shares actionable advice on how to have a REMARKABLE CAREER, covering a wide range of topics, including interview prep, personal branding, resumes, company culture, high performance, leadership, and innovation. Don't expect this advice to be the same old advice that gets recycled everywhere. The advice on The Deviant Thinking Podcast breaks the rules to give you new perspectives and actionable insights that will help you take your career to the next level of success. What defines career success, you ask? For my audience, it is doing challenging, creative, passionate work that makes a difference. Join us! Follow Jennifer on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/in/DeviantThinking & Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/deviantthinking/

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Deviant Thinking with Jennifer Thompson

All About Resumes!

December 12, 2019 • Jennifer Thompson • Season 1 • Episode 7

We all know we need a resume. Oh, but the excuses we all have for procrastinating this vital task.

No one wants to be caught with an outdated resume, but somehow we never seem to find the time to chunk one out.

Today, I am going to share why it is essential to have an updated resume, what makes a modern and compelling resume, and how to capture your data, so you have everything you need. I promise this won’t be boring or the same old advice.

Check Out These Highlights:
(01:19) I promise you, if you put a resume together without intention, without sitting down and figuring out who you are, what you want to do, and what you want to contribute to the world, you will attract a job that doesn't align with you. So it is really important to find that a resume is the outcome of some great soul searching as opposed to the input into a job search.
(05:41) It is a great time to kind of collect those thoughts, remember what you're doing and really start to build a collection of data that you can work from to create your resume.
(08:26) A resume really should be the output of the really simple question of how do I show my credentials and where I'm going so that I can really choose who I want to be when I grow up.
(12:34) So how do you know what to share on a resume?
(15:46) Every bullet that's on your resume, you should be super proud of. You should smile when you read what you've accomplished and you should just be jazzed about it.
(16:25)Share the scope of the work that you do and the complexities of it help people to understand who you are and the things that you juggle in your life.
(22:55) Make the sloppy copy, then come in and really refine it.
(25:14) For you folks who haven't written a resume in 30 years…

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