Over the course of this month I will offer a new view of the resume and how you can make it work best for you. The official view of a resume is a one-page synopsis of your entire work history as well as an overview of you as a person. As you might imagine, this presents a nearly impossible task. It is a rare person who can sum up their life's worth in a few hundred words. To be truly useful, your resume needs to focus on those items that make you stand out from the crowd in a positive way.
Most resumes are staid, terse and very corporate.
You need to approach your resume in the same way that an advertiser looks at an advertisement. You, too, are trying to convince someone to buy a product. In this case, though, you are the product. Your experience is what makes you different from the next person in the stack of resumes. Your new goal with a resume is to make the interviewer want to pick up the phone just to see if you are as knowledgeable and interesting as your resume makes you appear.