The Financial Griot

Editing Your Resume and Rebranding Your Purpose with Michael Theodore

Episode Summary

Writing a powerful resumé has never been easy. But in today’s online, mobile and tech-driven employment landscape, it’s especially challenging. That’s why it’s critical to learn how to optimize your resumé for electronic scanning systems and human readers if you want to get hired in 2022 and Beyond. In this episode of the Financial Griot, we are joined by special guest Michael Theodore, a Higher Education Advisor and Mentor. As the world changes toward reopening, we tackle issues on branding and designing a path that works for you in the short and long run.

Episode Notes

Writing a powerful resumé has never been easy. But in today’s online, mobile and tech-driven employment landscape, it’s especially challenging. That’s why it’s critical to learn how to optimize your resumé for electronic scanning systems and human readers if you want to get hired in 2022 and Beyond.

In this episode of the Financial Griot, we are joined by special guest Michael Theodore, a Higher Education Career Counselor (NYU) and Community Mentor. As the world changes toward reopening, we tackle issues on branding and designing a path that works for you in the short and long run.

We also share tips on improve your overall presentation. It comes down to first appearances. 

Here are 8 Critical Steps to improve your resume by Forbes.com: 

  1. Write to the future, not the past
  2. Integrate critical keywords
  3. Showcase your “wow.”
  4. Ditch the Objective (and replace it with a Summary)
  5. Write “lean and mean.”
  6. Make your contact information pop so busy hiring managers can reach you easily
  7. Improve your resumé’s skimmability.
  8. Punch up the design (cautiously)

Tips on how to prepare for an interview post pandemic (Beyond the classroom):

  1. Brush up on your virtual presentation from lighting to atmosphere
  2. Be Flexible and Positive
  3. Understand the balance of remote work life and the challenges that come with it.

 

Detailed show notes, www.theneighborhoodfinanceguy.com

 

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