Keep Track of Your Professional Life
Keep an Updated Resume By Tracking Your Growth
When it comes time to polish up your resume for your job interviews, it can be hard to remember everything that you should include. It can also be hard to figure what is important enough to add.
What you need to do is keep track of everything in your professional life so that you know everything of importance for your resumes. Before you start remembering, you need to make sure you know what deserves to be remembered.
What to Remember
To start off, write down every job you ever had. Include the following details in your notes:
- How long you were there
- Your responsibilities
- The size of the company
- Your bosses and supervisors
- Any achievements
- Why you left
After that, there are still several other things you should write down as well. Even if they don’t pertain to a job, they are still part of your professional career.
- Where you went to school
- Your major
- Your GPA
- Extra-curricular activities
- Awards and accolades
- Internships
- Letters of recommendation
- References
- Examples of your work
- Certifications
- Your professional skillset
Finally, you need to start remembering stories from your career that showcase your skills and talents. These stories are for your job interviews. During interviews, you will be asked to tell stories related to your professional life. You don’t want to have to come up with stories on the spot, when instead you can remember some of the better ones beforehand.
How to Track Everything
If you want, you can grab a notebook and start writing things down, but that is probably not going to be your best bet. Instead, you should keep a digital folder of all of this. This means keep older versions of your resume and other important things we listed saved on your computer.
Organize everything in your folders chronologically and by what field you were working in at the time. Make sure you keep a backup of this folder somewhere else in case something were to happen to your computer. You don’t want to find out that you lost all traces of your resume just because you accidentally deleted that folder.
Hire Someone Who Knows What’s Important
When it comes time to start looking for jobs, make sure that you are building a resume that makes sense rather than one that’s just a concoction of everything you saved. The person that’s going to know everything you need to remember is a professional resume writer.
They will be able to decipher what from your professional background is important enough to add to your resume, and what is not as important for this particular job. From there, you can start applying for jobs. Click here to schedule an interview with a professional resume writer!