Resume: Google’s former recruiter has some important tips for your resume – Times of India

Techies, Google’s former recruiter, Nolan Church, has some important tips for your resume. Church has worked in talent acquisition at companies like Google and is currently the CEO of talent marketplace Continuum. Talking about resumes, Church shared some key suggestions. “The No. 1 thing I don’t want to see on a resume is probably text bricks,” he told CNBC. This is to say “endless streams of text that have a lot of words but not a lot of content,” he added.
He warned that when he sees one of those, “there’s zero chance you’re going to move forward.” His advice is to make sure that your resume is “clean of endless text”. He said that people often forget to be crisp and concise while detailing what they do. “When people describe what they’ve been doing, they often have a hard time being concise,” he told the publication.
Follow the ’10-second rule’
Church asked job seekers to remember: “my advice would be to optimize a resume for 10-second viewership.” Reason being: Sometimes that’s all the time an HR rep will have to dedicate to your resume. “Short bullets and sentences will give them a chance to get all of the critical points of your career immediately,” he said.
The magic bullets
He said that below every job title there should be a series of one-line bullets, instead, people write “three to four sentences per bullet.” “If you can’t succinctly describe what you’ve been doing in your career,” he says, “there’s just no way you’re going to be able to succinctly write in the workplace.”
Get your resume reviewed
Another suggestion he has is to have people review your resume and edit it down. “I fundamentally believe that at least five to 10 people should be giving you feedback on your resume,” says Church. Reach out to people in your network who’ve done well in their careers and ask if they’ll take a look.”