This is how your Resume should be in 2022

What Is a Resume?

A resume is a summary of your professional experience, whether it is new or has been ongoing for a long time. It displays the jobs you've held and presently hold, the duties you've taken on, the talents you've developed, and the traits you bring to the table as an employee, and it's around one page long (two pages only under special circumstances). When all of these factors are combined, any hiring manager can quickly assess your qualifications and suitability for a position.

Despite the time and effort you put into preparing one, hiring managers just look at your CV for a few seconds in many circumstances. Despite this unfortunate reality, it's reasonable to state that putting together an excellent CV (rather than a hurriedly thrown together one) is still important.

"If you miss the mark on your CV, it's possible that it will never be read." Even worse, a computer could eliminate you from the candidate pool before a human even notices you," says Heather Yurovsky, creator of Shatter & Shine, a Muse career consultant. So you want to get it right, since isn't the goal to "spend less time looking for a job and more time in a role you enjoy," as she puts it?

You might be thinking if instead of drafting a resume, you might rely on your LinkedIn presence. Unfortunately, the answer is no. Even if they glance at your LinkedIn, most hiring managers still expect you to submit a resume. Even if you don't need a resume for the job you're applying for right now, you'll need one later on in your career—they're not going out of vogue anytime soon. As a result, it's important to always have one on hand in case a chance arises.

And, while LinkedIn has many advantages, a resume has one distinct advantage: While your LinkedIn profile normally provides a broad overview of your career path, your resume allows you to customize your professional history to a specific function or firm.

You don't need us to tell you that your resume is crucial. It summarizes your qualifications for a recruiter or hiring manager, and it's the document they use to see if you're a good fit for your ideal job.

So you want it to be the best it can be and you don't want it to look cluttered, outdated, or difficult to read. What should a resume look like in 2022, given all of this? We've compiled the top tips for writing a resume that will stand out from the crowd and land you an interview.

What Do Hiring Managers Look for in a Resume?

"What did you do? ", "Why did you do? ", and "What was the result?" are the three items hiring managers look for on your CV. What was your motivation for doing so? "How did it turn out?" Martin McGovern, the proprietor of Career Therapy, says Muse career coach Martin McGovern. "You'll be on the correct track if you can answer all three of these questions in bullet points on your resume."

The importance of clear, easy-to-understand language cannot be overstated. "The truth is that the majority of resumes are illogical. They're jam-packed with jargon, overly technical, and riddled with redundancy. Try reading a CV that isn't yours and you'll notice that it feels like it was written by an alien," McGovern adds. Consider yourself in the shoes of a recruiter who has no idea what your job entails: how can you make your resume accessible to them?

The hiring manager is interested in more than simply you and you alone; they are interested in your position in relation to them. According to Yurovsky, hiring managers want to determine if an applicant "matches the specifications" of the position they're filling. "Your CV should portray this picture so that the hiring manager understands not only what day-to-day activities you are capable of handling, but also why you, above others, add value to their firm."

What Is the Best Way to Write a Resume in 2022?

Simple Is Best

A clean, straightforward layout is excellent unless you're applying for a design position.

• Use clear section headings with bold text, capital letters, and/or a distinct color to make them stand out.
• Make sure there's enough white space on your resume an overcrowded resume is difficult to read.
• Fancy graphics, pie charts, and artwork aren't compatible with resume-scanning software, so leave them out.

Instead of an objective, use a summary statement.

A resume objective, such as "Seeking a senior-level product management post in the fintech industry," tells the recruiter exactly what you're looking for. A concise statement, on the other hand, illustrates how much value you can add to their lives.

Highlight Key Skills

Make sure the abilities you include meet the requirements for the position you're going for, whether you put them at the front of your resume (like the one here) or at the bottom, after your work experience. Are you unsure what they are? Pay attention to whatever talents, programmes, and keywords are listed in the job description. If the job description mentions a requirement or obligation that you've fulfilled in a current or former career, include it on your resume.

Prioritize your most recent experience.

The classic reverse chronological structure, in which you include your current or most recent employment first, is still preferred by recruiters.

It Can Be Broken Down

List your tasks and accomplishments for each job in easy-to-skim bullets rather than paragraphs, which appear bulkier and more difficult to read. Make sure each of these bullets begins with a powerful action verb.

Consider including volunteer or other experience in your resume.

Volunteer work and other interests might help you appear more three-dimensional by adding personality to your resume. These experiences might also help you highlight abilities you've acquired outside of the office.

Make a track of your bullets

Add figures and results to your bullet points whenever possible to demonstrate the impact you had in a role. You can accomplish this even if you're not in a finance or accounting position: How often did you complete a task? What was the size of your group? What was the total number of persons who used your product?

Use these pointers to update your CV for the new decade, and you'll be one step closer to landing the perfect job.