I thought my resume update would take an hour. It took three weeks.

I decided to finally redo my resume after a slow year in real estate. I figured I'd just list my sales and be done in an afternoon. But trying to show my skills without sounding like everyone else was way harder. I rewrote the whole thing maybe ten times, asked three friends to check it, and even paid a guy online $75 for advice. What finally worked was picking two big deals from last year and writing a short story about how I closed them. Has anyone else gotten stuck trying to make their experience sound good on paper?

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jamie_clark5mo ago

Totally feel this. I spent a whole weekend trying to make my last job sound less boring on a resume. Ended up rewriting the same bullet point like twenty times. The story idea is smart, makes it way more real than just listing duties. That $75 you spent is rough though, hope it was worth it. I finally just copied how some people in my field worded their stuff on LinkedIn.

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logan6485mo ago

Man, why is it so hard to just write down what you do? That story idea sounds way better than a boring list. Did your friends give you any good tips?

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