Resume Rescue
This résumé issue can cause recruiters to lose interest or miss key details.
What is including irrelevant work experience?
Employers may assume this about unexplained résumé gaps.
What is that you're unreliable or hiding something?
Doing this while walking through your résumé can make your response unfocused.
What is rambling or being too personal?
Keeping this mindset helps when you don’t hear back after applying.
What is not taking it personally and continuing the search?
This physical technique helps reduce nerves before or during interviews.
What is deep breathing or grounding exercises?
These formatting flaws hurt your résumé.
What are inconsistent fonts, typos, too much text, and overdesigning?
This mindset helps when explaining a gap.
What is being transparent, confident, and highlighting learning/growth?
This is the ideal tone to use when presenting your résumé story.
What is confident, focused, and concise?
This tone is best when sending post-interview follow-ups.
What is polite, professional, and appreciative?
This is a helpful tactic when receiving an unexpected question in an interview.
Asking for some time to think on your answer.
Doing this to your resume for each new application can be a waste of time and end up slowing down your search.
What is customizing your resume to better match the job descriptions?
These are effective ways to reframe and explain a gap on your résumé.
What are focusing on skills gained, personal growth, or productivity?
This acronym is used to structure clear examples when describing past experience.
What is STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result?
If you don’t hear back after an interview, these follow-up steps are appropriate.
What are sending a thank-you email, following up after one week, and moving forward with other opportunities?
This mental shift helps reframe interviews as more of a two-way conversation.
What is viewing it as a dialogue, not a performance test?
A common mistake for new grads: listing this instead of accomplishments.
What are job duties or responsibilities?
True or False: when moving jobs, those without gaps in their resume experienced a pay raise 8% higher than those with gaps.
What is true?
Interviewers ask this question to understand your story and how your past fits now.
What is “Walk me through your résumé”?
These are common reasons you may not hear back after an interview.
What are hiring delays, process changes, or ghosting by the employer?
This type of preparation helps reduce interview stress.
What are practice interviews and focused prep on expected questions?