Tips For How To Write A Better Resume (From A Recruiter's Perspective)

As a recruiter and a career coach, I look at a lot of résumés and I do a lot of résumé reviews. And one thing is perfectly clear. Some of y'all need some help. And in this video, I'm going to share some rum writing tips that will help your resume not suck.

Hey everybody, it's Brian from Life After Layoff and today I want to share with you some rumé writing tips so that you can put your best foot forward and hopefully start landing more job interviews. Now I want to preface this by stating that there's no singular right way to write a resume. There's

lots of different approaches and a lot of them are very valid and the litmus test here is is your resume getting the results that you want? If it is then stick with what works best for you. My approach comes from a corporate recruiter's perspective, how I screen and look at résumés very quickly. We

usually give you a five-second glance, but also how hiring managers have given me feedback on how they screen resumes themselves. And so the feedback and the tips that I teach are from that perspective. But I'm not saying that my way is the only way that you can approach it. However, I do want to give

you some tips that can help you improve your presentation because ultimately you have a very short amount of time to capture the attention of the person who is screening the resume and making sure ours is the one that gets called for that first round interview. And I also want to point out that the tips that I'm

sharing today come directly from my resume rocket course, which teaches you exactly how to write a resume from a recruiter's perspective. So, if you need a little bit more assistance in developing and crafting the right resume for you, you may want to consider that option. So, the first thing we want to do is stop using outdated templates