☀️ DAY 16: Resume: Finishing it up ☀️

30 seconds from finishing your resume!

May 16, 2022

Welcome back to our final edition about resumes! We hope you’ve enjoyed our posts that have broken down the different elements to a resume: education section, experience section, additional information section, and formatting. Today, we’re going through a few common hurdles that people encounter when working on a resume.

Today's lesson starts NOW!

The importance of truthfully selling yourself

The goal of a resume is to sell yourself. You absolutely want to share details about your prior experiences (both internships/work experiences and also those outside of traditional work), as well as your passions. With that in mind, you do not want to exaggerate or lie.

For one, it isn’t ethical to lie. It can also backfire: if you're in an interview, your interviewer will likely be looking at your resume while they do the interview. They may ask you something along the lines of: “I saw on your resume that you are fluent in Spanish.” And they then may start speaking in Spanish. If you are not truly fluent in Spanish, well… it will show very quickly.

How should my resume be different from my cover letter?

  1. The information shared on your cover letter and resume should be consistent with each other. For example, if on your resume you say that you developed 15 blogs for a company you worked at, you should not say in your cover letter that you wrote 50 blogs. If someone finds inconsistencies in your cover letter and resume, they may doubt your trustworthiness… and you don’t want that!

  2. Your cover letter and resume should attempt to show different sides of you. Your resume is the place to share the highlights of what you did and what you accomplished. The cover letter is your place to expand a bit more on these experiences and to show more nuanced sides to yourself and to link your interests and skills to the company you’re applying to.

Reminder: for details on how to do this in your cover letter, check out the series of posts we created about how to write your cover letter: starting with how to craft the body paragraphs, then writing the introduction and conclusion, and finally putting it all together.

That’s it for the resume portion of the course. We hope it’s been helpful. We look forward to seeing you again soon.

–Team @ Intern From Home

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