Honestly, everyone hates resumes.
Consultants don't like writing them or keeping them up to date, hiring managers don't like reading them (seriously, the average reading time is 7.4 seconds), and do they REALLY showcase what a person can bring to the table?
This is an area where I always seem to fall down the rabbit-hole. There's so much advice available on the internet from professional resume writers, to business journals giving tips, to the truly ridiculous of ideas (make it a video!), that it'll make your head spin. But how do you know what's worth listening to vs what you should ignore? After all, you don't want to tailor your resume based on advice meant for a sales manager, right? (That is, unless you WANT a position as a sales manager?
Luckily, TrainingPros pulled together some excellent info for their blog and I'm sharing it here because it's kind of perfect. So perfect that I've now read it four times in the last few weeks as I update my own resume.
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