Your resume is a reflection of you!
When writing your resume, it should be a reflection of you. As you create a resume to showcase your career highlights, it’s important to write it with authenticity. What does that mean? Authenticity is real. As defined by Merriam-Webster: Authenticity is real, actual, a reflection of your personality, spirit or character.
How does this translate to you and your resume? Just be you! The worst thing you can do is fill a resume full of buzzwords and flash. This is bad because while it may catch the eye of a recruiter, it will also turn off the recruiter when they realize your resume is full of fluff. Fluff does not get job offers, authenticity does.
Build your resume as a reflection of you. Show a little about what makes you, you. Allow recruiters and hiring managers see your personality through your work experience. The role for which you are applying doesn’t matter, as long as you go after it with a solid reflection of you.
Whether you are a public speaker or a data analyst, your personality and character should be reflected in your resume. Candidates for these 2 roles will most likely be wildly different. For example, a public speaker may have a resume full of social events whereas a data analyst may have a resume full of spreadsheet analysis and office meetings. Both are perfectly acceptable as long as they reflect you, the candidate.
As you sit down to create your resume, think about what makes you great at what you do. Then, figure out a way to say it in your career highlights, whether it be through recognition or branding versus cost savings or finding a root cause problem.
Organizations need great people. They want great people. They want those people to want to be with them and happy in their roles. By writing a resume that is a reflection of you and your authenticity, you are more likely to be recognized as great at what you do. Recruiters and hiring managers will see it in your resume and observe it in an interview.