Resumes

I really hate resumes.

The faculty mentor for my floor is an instructor in the communication department, so he decided he would put on a resume program to help out people who were looking to learn about resumes or to make their existing resumes better. Naturally, as an RA, I was there. I had a resume, but it was a one page deal that I had done for a class last year, so it was out of date and not real extensive. I brought it along and let him tear it up so that I could make it better. And honestly, it really did need to be better.

In order to have a good resume, you really have to work at it. You have to use all the right words and all the right places, all the right formats and all the right phrasing. (OneRepublic reference for the win!) Worse still, what is required changes from job to job, and it's not like companies tell you what kind of resume you should give them. You have to kinda guess. For instance, if you are submitting a resume to an engineering firm, you'll probably want your resume to be more heavily informative and less creative than one you might send to a television studio.

And to top it all off, this piece of paper that you've spent hours and hours carefully tailoring and fine tuning gets, on average, glanced at for less than a minute. Oh sweet ungratification, thy name is resume. Go burn in a fire.

In case you hadn't guessed it already, I spent the last couple hours working on my resume. There must be a better way. Like bribery. Or seduction. This bears thinking on.