How to Update Your Resume
2 December 2008
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Excerpt from Jean-Paul Vermès' Resume Guide, reproduced with the permission of Editions d’Organisation.
As we've seen, preparing and designing a curriculum vitae involves many steps and takes time. This leads to the temptation of thinking it's set in stone, done once and for all. And that a simple touch-up will suffice to update it. Adding a new line in the "Professional Experience" section or changing a few dates (age, for example).
In fact, it's in your best interest to repeat the same process you initially undertook. In short, to review your entire career, to "start from scratch" as the saying goes.
Indeed, the steps you've taken and the experiences you've had may have influenced your initial professional project. It will therefore be useful to review the different steps of your previous assessment (professional and personal) to update them and specify your new ambitions and wishes for the future. Furthermore, this allows you to remove or add elements that might not immediately come to mind but which you could be questioned about (example: discontinued sporting activity).
In summary, like a long jumper, get back into position and adjust your approach based on your latest experience. Of course, you absolutely must not simply add a line – new information is sometimes handwritten on a typed CV – to the original document! You must redo the CV, reshape it, reconfigure it.
To learn more and discover all of Jean-Paul Vermès' advice, you can order the Resume Guide online from Editions d’Organisation.
Posted on December 1, 2008
monster.fr
As we've seen, preparing and designing a curriculum vitae involves many steps and takes time. This leads to the temptation of thinking it's set in stone, done once and for all. And that a simple touch-up will suffice to update it. Adding a new line in the "Professional Experience" section or changing a few dates (age, for example).
In fact, it's in your best interest to repeat the same process you initially undertook. In short, to review your entire career, to "start from scratch" as the saying goes.
Indeed, the steps you've taken and the experiences you've had may have influenced your initial professional project. It will therefore be useful to review the different steps of your previous assessment (professional and personal) to update them and specify your new ambitions and wishes for the future. Furthermore, this allows you to remove or add elements that might not immediately come to mind but which you could be questioned about (example: discontinued sporting activity).
In summary, like a long jumper, get back into position and adjust your approach based on your latest experience. Of course, you absolutely must not simply add a line – new information is sometimes handwritten on a typed CV – to the original document! You must redo the CV, reshape it, reconfigure it.
To learn more and discover all of Jean-Paul Vermès' advice, you can order the Resume Guide online from Editions d’Organisation.
Posted on December 1, 2008
monster.fr
