Resume Tip: Don't Bury Your Promotions. (Shovel by G & A Sattler, CC2.0)
Did you bury the best part of your resume in a pile of words? Of course not, you said it right there in plain English: “took on multiple tasks…” “assumed responsibility for project…”
But it might not be so clear to the person reading your resume that you’re trying to express that your past employers promoted you to added responsibility.
It’s a common mistake, said Donald Burns, a certified professional resume writer who works with TheLadders who recently helped a Jonathan, product manager/project manager at a financial services company in Boston, unearth the promotions in his resume.
Jonathan had a long history of promotions in his career, but the achievements were muted in bullet points under his job titles, Burns said. They weren’t featured in a presentable fashion.
“He alluded to promotions and changes in having more responsibility in the sentences,” Burns said, “but the actual titles weren’t there, so I was able through my interview with him to see this, get him to spell them out, and then I was able to make them in to individual subheadings.”
(Shovel by G & A Sattler, CC2.0)
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