Comments on: Updating Your Resume http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/ Career advice from job search experts Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Summing up Your 2008 Career Accomplishments | Career Management Alliance Blog http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/#comment-1290 Summing up Your 2008 Career Accomplishments | Career Management Alliance Blog Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:27:06 +0000 http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/#comment-1290 [...] for certain things? The answers to these questions will prove invaluable should you need to update your resume in 2009. Take the time during the less hectic month of December to reflect. Posted by Barbara [...] [...] for certain things? The answers to these questions will prove invaluable should you need to update your resume in 2009. Take the time during the less hectic month of December to reflect. Posted by Barbara [...]

]]> By: Ilona Vanderwoude http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/#comment-676 Ilona Vanderwoude Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:57:09 +0000 http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/#comment-676 Great question! We certainly would not want to end up with a 7-page resume! The trick is in being strategic. Use more space for your most recent experience and less for your older positions. Most employers are interested in the last 15 years of your background anyway, so focus on that and very briefly summarize earlier experience. Sometimes just listing the name of your employer, your position title, and the dates suffices. Of course, this is assuming you are staying in the same field and your most recent experience is relevant to your current job target. If you are returning to a field you worked in decades ago, you'd want to employ a whole different strategy altogether - material for another blog! : ) Great question! We certainly would not want to end up with a 7-page resume! The trick is in being strategic. Use more space for your most recent experience and less for your older positions. Most employers are interested in the last 15 years of your background anyway, so focus on that and very briefly summarize earlier experience. Sometimes just listing the name of your employer, your position title, and the dates suffices.

Of course, this is assuming you are staying in the same field and your most recent experience is relevant to your current job target. If you are returning to a field you worked in decades ago, you’d want to employ a whole different strategy altogether - material for another blog! : )

]]> By: landscape fabric http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/#comment-674 landscape fabric Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:56:30 +0000 http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/#comment-674 I think what you are suggesting in your post is an excellent idea - updating your CV as matter of course rather than only updating it when you are actively searching for employment - however if i continually updated it my CV/resume would be 6-7 pages long. Now, i don't know if the same rules apply in the States as in the uK, but we are told that a CV exceeding 2 pages will often be binned by recruiting companies. How do you suggest we fit all our updates within the 2 page barrier? I think what you are suggesting in your post is an excellent idea - updating your CV as matter of course rather than only updating it when you are actively searching for employment - however if i continually updated it my CV/resume would be 6-7 pages long. Now, i don’t know if the same rules apply in the States as in the uK, but we are told that a CV exceeding 2 pages will often be binned by recruiting companies. How do you suggest we fit all our updates within the 2 page barrier?

]]> By: Carl E. Reid http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/#comment-673 Carl E. Reid Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:15:23 +0000 http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/updating-your-resume/#comment-673 Great article Ilona. I always tell coaching clients and any I talk to about career issues "update your resume the day after you start a new job". A person never knows will a job search may have to be done at a moment's notice. <a href="http://www.jobsearch20.com" rel="nofollow">Carl E. Reid, CSI</a> Great article Ilona. I always tell coaching clients and any I talk to about career issues “update your resume the day after you start a new job”. A person never knows will a job search may have to be done at a moment’s notice.

Carl E. Reid, CSI

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