Four Ways to Freshen Up Your Financial Resume
Just like your home, your resume can benefit from a seasonal refresh. This blog shares four actionable tips to update and refine your financial resume, helping you highlight relevant experience, remove outdated details, and stand out to hiring managers. For help finding your next role in finance, turn to PrideStaff Financial!
Time to let go of clutter:
When you do a spring clean-up, how does it look? What’s your process? Many have yard sales, getting rid of things no longer needed. Recognizing what’s important to keep and what can be let go of is necessary to clean out “clutter.” When you freshen or update your resume, it’s the same process. Take stock of what’s currently on your resume and think about what it’s conveying to hiring managers. If you have your first job from 15 years ago still on your resume, it might be time to take it off—unless it’s still your current position. Similarly, if you have unnecessary information on your resume like your hobbies, remove it. Your resume is a hiring manager’s first impression of who you are, and you want to make sure it showcases who you currently are.
Temporary opportunities:
A more recent addition to resumes or CVs is to include any and all temporary, interim, or contract positions on your resume—employers will be interested in job seekers who have kept their skills sharp in between roles.
Awards and certifications:
This is an important part of financial resumes and something that hiring managers zero in on. You should include awards and certifications. This is the time to showcase why you are the most qualified and what better way to do that than by including what sets you apart from the crowd. It shows hiring managers that you are consistently staying on top of current requirements, niches, and current skill trends.
Update your executive summary:
It’s always about the commercial impact. What can you do for them? The executive summary is the short paragraph intro that kicks off your resume. It can be hard to encapsulate your professional experience in such an abbreviated space, but it is a vital component. Watch out for too many pronouns and be as succinct and direct as you can. Remember that most hiring managers don’t want to see a resume longer than one-and-a-half to two pages long. You only have so many words to make your case. Make sure to use the right ones.
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