Some of what you learn about making a resume can be outdated information. In fact, unless the person who taught you how to make a resume has newly obtained your dream position in the last year, there’s a chance they didn’t teach you how to make a resume that YOU will find success with!

1. If you are looking for a non-restaurant/retail job, you need more than one resume.
   – For each version of your resume, paste your work experience into an AI tool and tell it “reword my experiences with keywords that match job listings for (desired job).
   – Why? Because any company with more than 10 employees is essentially guaranteed to be using some kind of AI to filter through resumes. If you don’t do this, your resume probably won’t ever even be seen by a human recruiter. Bonus points if you make a resume by feeding your experience + a job’s listing both to an AI and have it rewrite based on that.
   
2. Less is more unless you don’t have much.
   – You need to boil down your previous responsibilities and skills gained to bullet points that are ideally no more than 15 words at 4-6 bullet points max per resume entry.
   – Don’t have a lot of experience? Think about times you were using skills that you took the time to accrue and turn it into a resume entry! AI can also help with this. School projects, times you volunteered to review a friend’s game server, time as a chat mod, helping your neighbor cut firewood, etc.
   
3. If you are applying on job recruiter sites, visit company sites to apply as well.
   – There’s a chance that the job recruiter sites are getting floods of real or fake applications with what seems like more credentials or candidacy than you have. Broaden your reach by finding company emails or job listings through company websites for jobs you’re really drawn to.