Whatever the reason. If you’ve just decided that you’re going to be looking for a new job, you’re probably sitting down right now and refreshing/writing your resume from scratch. Perhaps you’re the kind of person who was taught in high school that a resume must fit on one page, on two pages, in 500 words or some other mystical rule that will make a recruiter read it with bated breath. If so, this is the text for you.

Whether you are working on more projects, organizing company processes, sales, management or finance, you definitely have something to boast about after many years. I agree, a resume is a conversation starter, not a book. However, think of it as if you were getting down to writing a book and chalking out a plan for it, points that will be easy for you to discuss at an interview.

It’s not enough to write that you were an Engineer in one job, a Manager in another, and a Director in a third, and you’re off the hook for describing 15 years of your career. What projects did you do as an Engineer? To what extent? Were they technically complex? When did you become a person of responsibility and decision-making? How big were the projects you managed as a Manager? What kind of budget did you manage? How many people? Can you identify the 10 most important projects, tasks, challenges on your resume?

Recruiters don’t respond. You get automated thank you messages. Worse, a recruiter responds and invites you to recruit for a Project Development Manager in RES, and you explain bewildered that development of course, but business (real life story). When you send your resume to job ads, you have no control over whether anyone will read it and whether it will go to a person whose experience will allow you to read it with understanding. Focus on what you have influence over. Write honestly about your career. Your responsibilities, your successes, your ideas. In the end, your resume will end up in the right hands.

You too have interesting things to report and stories to tell! Perhaps you participated in a foreign exchange, organized events at the university, are a member of an organization, and many other things that I wouldn’t even think of. Write about it. As for the magic one page. My advice to you is: If it fits, it fits 😊

I am involved in the #Oil&Gas #Renewables #Energy #Constuction industries. If you are interested in engineering, middle and top management positions in these industries, please contact me.

Karol Kasprzyk

Recruitment Manager

Globetek Ltd.