Resume Writing: 4 Tips on How to Write a Standout Resume | Indeed Career Tips

Writing a resume is a high stakes endeavor. In a single document, you have to give a recruiter enough information to make them want to interview you - and most of the time they will only read it for a few seconds.

In this video, Holl shares advice from expert career coaches. She explains how to choose the best type of resume for your application, the best resume format, how to maximize the impact of your resume bullet points and some insider information on what you should include.

00:00 Welcome
00:35 How to determine your resume strategy
02:25 How to format your resume
08:20 How to perfect your bullet points
09:45 How to tailor your resume
14:40 Recap

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[mattkennedy]

This was so incredibly helpful! I searched for days and days and finally found this ONE! You are so engaging and charismatic that the video ended and I wanted more lol. Thank you for being so awesome at this!

[brentwest]

You're an awesome teacher! Thanks for the thorough presentations explaining the "how" AND "why" to do the things you discuss in your videos. Very informative and extremely helpful!

[iamstudyingenglish.takeite]

Thank you so much! I loved. It helped me a lot. 🤝🏼🌅

[mmuneebahmed]

Good job, very nice and well explained. Thanks!

[NZLV]

I think you are very talented at teaching! Thank you.

[moetluv]

Nice overview and professional recap, emphasizing on bulletin points amd starting with strong action verbs.

[nikkifarland]

Wow, great video to illustrate the importance of what to include in different types of resumes. Immediately subscribed!

[oksana]

Super helpful, short, and informative. Thank you!

[ghazimusic]

A very very helpful video for making a standard resume. Thank you.

[kamalpandey]

It is really helpful. Thank you very much.

[ArleneBingo]

To answer your question, getting started with the resume itself and not taking each step one thing at a time. On a side note: at first glance, your presenters cause my personal ageist bias to kick in as I am an older job seeker; that personal oversight is my downfall. Contrarily your presenters and concepts are brilliant! Thanks for these posts.

[byeteaching]

Fantastic content! I appreciate how you've provided concrete examples of mistakes and offered practical solutions. Your advice will undoubtedly help teachers navigate the job market outside of education more effectively. Well done!

[charlenel.]

Excellent presentation! I found this video extremely insightful. Currently I am in the process of changing careers and need to brush up on my resume writing skills. Thank you so much for the great advice.

[kennygo]

Very clear explanation and helpful. Thanks! Wanna keep watch your contents!

[asiakercheval]

Should we choose new skills that are different from the ones we put in the summary statement?

[FilipMakaroni_xD]

This video convinced me to take the effort of bullet pointing my work experience👀and the sentence "Drove customer loyalty by delivering high-quality food service and wine pairing suggestions to an average of 100 customers an evening during peak business hours" sounds like a good example of how to put emphasis on the impact of your work, however the beginning "Drove customer loyalty" feels like corporate speech to me, this is one of the challenges I feel when updating my resume/LinkedIn profile, how to make it better while staying genuine to myself and not feeling like I am a bullshiter😅.

On a somewhat related note I read somewhere that one of the mistakes in resume writing is to write things that are always supposed to be assumed about you like "positive team player", if you exclude this information does it mean you're implying that you're not positive and not a team player?, did you drive customer disloyalty if you omit it?

[korzinietz]

It is a great video. Helped me a lot write my resume. So thanks a lot.

[BassByTheBay]

Great advice, but your food service example at 9:14 contradicts the advice that immediately follows it about keeping bullet points concise ("1 to 2 lines max..."). Mentioning it because it's a bit confusing.

[joanndombrow]

Excellent video 📷📸 how many skills should be listed in the that section thanks