30 Career Management Tips: Update your resume

This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities.

Today’s tip: Update your resume.

Yesterday, in “30 Career Management Tips: Provide your updated resume to your new manager,” I wrote about the importance of providing your new manager with your resume and to use it as the basis of having a career discussion immediately after a transition.

But, the corollary to that is this: update your resume.

Hard to provide your manager a current resume if you don’t update it, right?

It’s not my intent to provide all the cool resume rules that need to be followed. But I’ll link you to a site that at least tells you the ten timeless mistakes to avoid in writing your resume.

In “10 Ways Your Resume Irks Hiring Managers (http://jobs NULL.aol NULL.com/article/_a/10-ways-your-resume-irks-hiring-managers/20070809123709990001?ncid=AOLCOMMjobsDYNLsec0002),” Mary Lorenz provides us the timeless mistakes resume writers STILL make when penning the document that will help them get the job.

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Related posts:

1. 30 Career Management Tips — Provide your updated resume to your new manager
2. 3 ways to update a stale resume
3. 30 Days — 30 Career Management Tips
4. 30 Career Management Tips — Owning your mistakes
5. 30 Career Management Tips — find your mud