The article below comes to us from the team over at Doostang. My long-time readers will recognize the Doostang name because it is the career search site founded by one of my close friends from my class at Stanford GSB. Since its launch a few years ago, Doostang has evolved tremendously and is now THE place to go for high-end, hard-to-find jobs in desirable industries and functions, including Investment Banking, Private Equity, Consulting, Corporate Strategy, and Information Technology. Doostang has also become a provider of general career information, which is how the article below comes into play. The article describes Doostang’s top five tips for writing an effective resume, as informed by their experience with recruiters in a range of industries. Knowing that many of my readers may be on the hunt for a new job, I found this article to be especially timely.
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“When Resumes Attack!”
Author: Doostang
Source: Doostang Blog, http://doostang.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/shark-week-2009-when-resumes-attack/?from=twitter&dooblogaug6
Intro text for the article:
Writing a resume – for a novice, it can feel as intimidating as jumping into an icy pool of sharks. In this sink-or-swim environment of prolific layoffs and limited resources, your resume can mean the difference between a new career and another 6 months of searching. There are so many questions – where to start? What to include? How to format? Somehow people do it, and somehow they succeed, limbs intact.
But like sharks, resumes aren’t really as mean and scary as people make them out to be. They’re just misunderstood creatures which, if handled incorrectly, can do a heck of a lot of damage.
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