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5 Reasons to Always Keep Your Résumé Updated
As the year comes to a close, we are approaching the busiest time of year for job hopping. The New Year doesn’t only usher in a change in the calendar, it also brings about the highest volume of employment opportunities. There is a (completely understandable) tendency to only look at your résumé when you know you’ll be using it soon. After all, who has the time to continuously work on a document that they aren’t planning on using? Valid point. But that thinking may also come back to haunt you. The trick is to consistently update your résumé so that it’s not a single, monumental task. In the end, there is a good chance that the reward will significantly outweigh the effort spent. I could easily include more, but here are my 5 most important reasons to always keep your résumé updated.
- Remind yourself of your skills and achievements. It’s easy to get caught up in our daily tasks and forget about everything that we have accomplished. Revamping your résumé will allow you to re-visit what helped get you to where you are today. This should also work to instill a sense of confidence as your explore more exciting job opportunities.
- Be prepared for the next great opportunity. As quickly as opportunities pop up, they can disappear even quicker. Some fields are so specialized that intriguing job openings do not come up often. When one does, you need to be ready. Scrambling to update your résumé before an imposing deadline can lead to mistakes and oversights.
- … And be prepared for the worst. Hopefully this never happens to you, but sometimes positions or companies cease to exist without much warning. Most people are not in a position to withstand a lengthy stint of unemployment. I sincerely urge you to hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
- Advertise yourself as an expert. This is important if you strive to present at conferences, publish your work or be considered for management positions. If your résumé doesn’t accurately reflect your impressive background, then you might miss out on valuable chances to further your career.
- Focus your career path. It might seem like your experience is all over the place and without a common thread. However, writing it down on paper and articulating key attributes of each position may expose some interesting commonalities. From this, you may discover a career path of interest that you hadn’t considered previously.
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