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_clark4d agoTop Commenter

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.

logan6484d 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?