This is mostly really good, but I have a couple minor disagreements.  SoâŚhere are three recommendations from an HR person who reads a shitton of resumes every day:
Move the skills section up to the top! Â You know what I give a fuck about the most when Iâm reading a resume (at least for entry-level positions)? Â WHAT YOU CAN DO. Â I frankly donât give a shit where you learned it. Â Tell me what youâre capable of in concrete terms, organized in a bullet-points list or table that I can quickly scan to see if you even stand a chance of matching what we need, because that is all Iâm doing in those critical first couple of seconds that decides whether I even bother looking at the rest of the resume. Â (Which I get sounds kinda callous but when I have to get through a couple dozen resumes, meaning download, open, read, decide what to do, forward it to the appropriate person if it makes the cut with my comments/summary/recommendations, file it appropriately and go on to the next one, and get back to my other duties and responsibilities - which I donât have enough hours in the day for as it is - I canât afford to depth-read every single resume that hits my inbox.)
Include volunteer experience as work experience if you have any. Â Running the concession stand at a high school club event of some kind counts as cash handling and customer service experience. Â Making blog themes for your friends counts as web design experience. Â Just because you werenât getting paid doesnât mean it wasnât work experience you can potentially leverage to get actual paying work.
Rework that top statement - in its current form itâs looking like some odd hybrid of an executive summary (good!) and an objective statement (bad!), and Iâm not sure how I feel about it tbh.  I think itâs the âleveragingâŚto positively contributeâ bit that is pushing all my âugh no fucking shit sherlockâ buttons.  LikeâŚwhat were you going to say, that you want to skate along doing the bare minimum amount of work and you donât give a shit about the organizationâs goals?  I see way too many regurgitated statements like that - âpositively contributeâ and âmaximize successâ and âutilize my skills to further goalsâ etc. - and they just make my eyes roll out of my head at this point because theyâre so generically corporate.  Iâd rather see a declarative statement about what you are and what you can do, than what you want.
However, huge massive bonus points for putting language fluency right there at the top where I donât have to go hunting for it - language skills are ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS A PLUS and you want to highlight that shit as hard as you can. Â Shove that language fluency in my fucking face, PLEASE. Â Better that than having to scour your work history for mention of translation or anything like that, which I will only do if Iâm A: already liking your qualifications so far, and B: totally fucking desperate for someone who speaks goddamn Spanish already.
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