When I was in college for engineering, we learned how to apply continuous improvement to solve technical problems. I love the concept of continuous improvement so I try to apply it to all aspects of my life, including my resume! Here’s how I approach updating my resume to achieve continuous improvement:
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* When I go to any type of job search workshop, I bring my resume. That’s because while we’re talking about job searching, sometimes I think of some way I’d like to update my resume. If I have my resume with me, I can mark it up right then before I forget what I wanted to change.
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* Instead of making several versions of my resume, I treat each job I apply for as an opportunity to improve my resume.
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* My resume started as one page, but now it’s two pages. As I learn more about keywords for job descriptions and think about how best to describe my job experience, I’m adding to my resume. When I was in college it was drilled into my head that my resume had to be one page. But now it’s ok for your resume to be one or two pages.
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* I’m challenging myself to go into further detail on my resume each time I updated it. One example is my skills section, which used to be one section and now is three sections: Marketing Skills, Professional Skills and Computer Skills.
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* Saving old versions of my resume in an “Old Resumes” folder is how I’m able to go back to look at previous versions. Sometimes I remove things from my resume and then change my mind and want to add them back. This way I don’t have to remember exactly what I removed, I can just go back and look!
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What do you apply continous improvement to?
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