#like how can a resume be so short and yet there's about eight gazillion things you can do to strengthen it

[peachdoxie]

Your resume should include any relevant work experience and skills you have and it's good to include your volunteer work and internships (ideally four of them) as well as your multiple graduate degrees and the certifications you've earned during the process, and also your resume can only be one page in a font that's easy to read. This field is hard to break into because we have a lot of applicants for not a lot of openings and we'll keep them open for years until we find the perfect candidate. A great way to distinguish yourself is by taking any adjacent job you can find even if it means you have to work two or three part time jobs to make ends meet until a new opening is made. It's also good to tailor your resume to the companies and jobs you're applying for so that they know you researched the role and didn't send out mass applications, and oh, I highly, highly recommend that you keep your resume updated and a digital copy on hand so that you can email it to people at a moment's notice because it's good to keep an eye out for opportunities as they come up. Everyone around you has a master's degree and it's basically the new bachelor's and a PhD is the new master's and we really like seeing several years of work experience because there's a lot of stuff you can't learn in a classroom setting. It's a great field and I love working in it and you should pursue it if you're passionate about it!

#anecdotes by peachdoxie #i just came from a career seminar and i am feeling very cynical #this is about a specific field i won't mention for privacy ig but I'm sure it's widely applicable #some of this advice felt very contradictory #like how can a resume be so short and yet there's about eight gazillion things you can do to strengthen it #where is it all supposed to go??? #no shade meant to the presenter btw she was very nice and informative about how to get jobs in this particular industry #but tee bee aech it is depressing