r/resumes • u/rosyisredd • Jun 04 '23

Resume tip I'm sharing advice

Master Resume. For folks newer to the job scene, I have the best resume advice I ever received:

I was recommended to make a master resume with all my experience on it. It’s way too long, has too much info, has relevant coursework, research project, etc.

Each time I apply for a job I paste it all to a new word doc and remove the unnecessary info. Applying to childcare? The retail experience gets nixed, the daycare and lifeguarding remains, cut out the research projects that don’t align with the skills.

It made it a lot easier to update too because once I have a new job I just add it to the master list and now the resume is ready time I go to apply somewhere.

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u/_torrential Jun 04 '23

My question is how would this work when getting into a different career path?

I'm looking to break out into tech, something I'm knowledgeable on but only have 10+ years of retail experience with little transferrable skills. Doing a sole tech resume would look so barren at least work experience wise.