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two decades of advice packed into 90 minutes. Why're resumes hard? I was in my second year at Harvard Business School, and I was struggling with my resume. I'd put hours of effort into making sure it was perfect, rearranging bullet points, changing words around, inserting a new accomplishment, then deleting that accomplishment and rethinking it before reinserting it again. Accomplishments big and small from jobs recent in past, went through this endless cycle of include delete, repeat. Every time I made a change, I'd show my newest resume to fellow HBs students and staff. They'd inevitably have a new batch of comments and suggestions for improvements, so I would be back at the laptop for more updates, effort and worry about whether or not I was doing this right and secretly wondering whether or not all of this was a waste of time. I was up against bright lights who had been at Goldman Sachs or Microsoft or McKinsey, and they were going to get the on campus interviews first, weren't they? I was out of my league out of ideas and out of patience with the whole resume writing process. Even the spelling of resume is a mystery Do you really need to type? Resume? How do you make those weird characters anyway? It did seem on to me that the students and professors at America's top business school were so confused about resumes. Sometimes the advice given by one classmate today directly contradicted the advice I've been given last week by another. To be honest, it kind of seemed like a lot of them were making it up as they went along. If all those bright lights from shiny backgrounds were confused, how could anybody get it right? What can a stranger understand You? Can a stranger understand you from the top third of your resume? What does she want to do next? When your future boss picks up your resume, he needs to know the answer to that question. Before he puts it down. You'll need him to know who you are, what you do and what you're good for. Take the first page of your current resume and rip it off. I mean, literally ripped the top third away from the rest of the page, or cover up the rest with your hand. If this is all your resume that a stranger was given, would that stranger be able to tell me? And would they be able to repeat back to you what job you're seeking? Without any discussion? Would it be as clear to them as three iPad? Billboard is to the viewer about its use. The answer, For your sake and for the sake of the effectiveness of your resume, must be yes. And we will go into some detail about precisely how to construct this top third, because the first thing that all of the audience is reading your resume want to know is this. Does this gal or guy want this job that I have to film? Do not assume that because you're a director, it's obvious that you want to be a VP in the same field. Do not assume that it's obvious you want to work in the same industry in the same rule or specialty, or function in the same size company or in the same type of situation. And that's because for every person like you who wants to zig this way in your career, there's another person with a similar background who wants to zag in theirs. Much as the iPad billboard is bold with demonstrating what you conduce with the iPad and doesn't assume people will understand the uses from the packaging alone. The top third of your resume is your billboard. Obviously, given that you've spent the time to create a resume and send it to them, they know you want Ah, job. But do you want their particular job? Is it something that you've done before? If so, did you like it? If so, do you want to do it again? Job titles. On the first line, you'll list 3 to 5 job titles of jobs you would actually accept as your next job. It's important to note that these are the titles of the job you want next, not of the jobs you have had in the past or the job you currently have. You should think of this line as a role wanted at the place in your professional advertisement, where you inform recruiters and hiring managers of the job you desire and believe you are a good fit for this first line of your professional summary is the most effective area of your resume for communicating your expectations, so you should use it to do so, nearly repeating the job titles that you will be listing in your chronological history is a wasted opportunity. You don't need to advise for the jobs you're leaving now. It's important to note that it does not matter that you have never actually had this job title in the past, but it ought to be a plausible next step in your professional career. Rather your advertising, your ambition to the screener, the recruiter or hiring manager looking to hire someone for that particular role entitle calibrating precisely. The title you're looking for is easier, of course, if you plan on staying in a similar sized company, a V P Marketing at one tiny startup can plausibly lay claim to the ability to fulfill the VP marketing role at another tiny startup and to finance manager at one Fortune 1000. Company is well within her rights to indicate that senior manager finances her target for her next Jake. Complications arise when you're considering all company sizes. Having been a CMO at three different five persons, startups does not make it at all likely that you'd be considered for a role with the lower levels, such as director or VP, at a Fortune 500 company because there are no hard and fast rules that make it easy. You'll need to use your business judgement to determine what qualifies as a suitable title for which you ought to be considered. Examples of the first line of your professional summary are VP Comma Marketing dot director comma Marketing Don't Brand marketing leader Don't CMO or sales representative vertical bar business development executive, vertical bar account executive or logistics manager *** trick Logistics senior manager, *** trick operations manager Astra plant supervisor or financial director hyphen director comma FP and a hyphen credit analyst hyphen director Comma planning. You'll notice the separators can be anything tasteful and understated. An *** tricked a dot a vertical bar or a hyphen.