Everyone who wants a job needs a resume. Since everyone has one yours has to be the best and shiniest one in the pile that a hiring manager will see, so is it? The targets of my resume are the hiring managers of the Information Technology (IT) industry. The resume, has my skills and the most valuable academic accomplishments, however it reflects my interests very poorly, which are linked closely to the IT industry as most are based around computers and other technologies. I need to update my resume both with new information such as job experience and a refactored interests and hobbies section. My resume conveys some of my valuable skills and accomplishments which are appealing to employers, particularly the IT industry. However it is lacking
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The current resume has a “hobbies” section which contains tabletop wargaming, 3D modeling, and reading. None of these are interests of a manager in my audience. 3D modeling may be a stretch, it could be used in marketing but it is more than likely that if they needed more marketing they would choose someone with a different skillset anyway. I need to change the hobbies section to an “ interests” section. I would then remove the current entries and replace them with the following: Highly interested in computers. Interested in robotic systems. Interested in self improvement, and psychology. My computer and robotic interests show that I will want to work for the employer, that its not just a job to make money, I will be interested and happy to work for them, and a happy worker is an effective worker. The interest in self improvement is to show that I am a good long term investment, the longer I am hired, the better an employee I will become. Lastly, the interest in psychology suggests that I can be effective in dealing with customers, I can say and suggest specific things either to a customer, or a manager that will benefit the company either through customer satisfaction or by increasing customer spending or returning customers. This is due to the fact that with psychology, one can adjust things so that people are drawn without even knowing they are. Also, I …show more content…
It also attracts the reader with the large font for my name and the red header, particularly because red is the first color the eye notices; it is the first one the reader will see if all are laid out visibly. However it does not convey some smaller points that can push my application home. It does not convey relevant interests and the objective on it suggests a distracted, uncommitted employment. To make the resume more directed at the lower level IT industry I would change the objective and the hobbies section to an interests section, with interests that focus on computers and other helpful job
The current resume has a “hobbies” section which contains tabletop wargaming, 3D modeling, and reading. None of these are interests of a manager in my audience. 3D modeling may be a stretch, it could be used in marketing but it is more than likely that if they needed more marketing they would choose someone with a different skillset anyway. I need to change the hobbies section to an “ interests” section. I would then remove the current entries and replace them with the following: Highly interested in computers. Interested in robotic systems. Interested in self improvement, and psychology. My computer and robotic interests show that I will want to work for the employer, that its not just a job to make money, I will be interested and happy to work for them, and a happy worker is an effective worker. The interest in self improvement is to show that I am a good long term investment, the longer I am hired, the better an employee I will become. Lastly, the interest in psychology suggests that I can be effective in dealing with customers, I can say and suggest specific things either to a customer, or a manager that will benefit the company either through customer satisfaction or by increasing customer spending or returning customers. This is due to the fact that with psychology, one can adjust things so that people are drawn without even knowing they are. Also, I …show more content…
It also attracts the reader with the large font for my name and the red header, particularly because red is the first color the eye notices; it is the first one the reader will see if all are laid out visibly. However it does not convey some smaller points that can push my application home. It does not convey relevant interests and the objective on it suggests a distracted, uncommitted employment. To make the resume more directed at the lower level IT industry I would change the objective and the hobbies section to an interests section, with interests that focus on computers and other helpful job