7/26/2022

Updating my resume

For a while, I haven't really been liking the way my resume looks. Although it gives a fair amount of useful information (with some being a little unecessarily excessive), it's overall look is kind of... unappealing - somewhere on the line that separates bland from ugly and cluttered. For a visual representation of what I mean, here's the way it looks:
Inevitably, this has lead me to decide to remake it completely from scratch,

My first step is to jot down all the main important bits of information that will go on my resume, like my contacts, history and skills. To make this easier for me, I looked up quick examples of the kinds of points that go on a resume, since I wouldn't really rely on myself for this kind of information (just yet), but it wasn't anything that I didn't know already. I haven't really changed much since I last updated my resume, but I'm half-expecting there to be some kind of new piece of information added somehow. Anyways, this turned out to be a lot less writing than I thought.
Working out my skills is the hard part, though. Most of the time I think, "am I really being true to myself?" and "how much evidence do I need to back all this up?". It's also that feeling where you're kind of embarrassed because you don't want to seem like you're bragging, but it is important that you try to present yourself in the best and most honest way possible (which is kind of hard). 

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