The Resume Jump Scare: Why Your Resume Is Haunting Recruiters
- Lauren Deats
- 2 days ago
- 5 min read
How to stop being the villain in your own career horror story.
By: Lauren Deats
The Love-Hate Career Relationship
Estimated Read: 16 Minutes
Hey Bloomers!
Grab a triple-shot espresso and a high-powered flashlight. We are heading into the dark, damp basement of the modern job search: the Resume.
Welcome to the ultimate Love-Hate relationship. We love the prospect of a 40% raise, a shiny new title, and an office that doesn't smell like burnt popcorn. But we absolutely loathe the fact that we have to condense our entire professional existence into two pages of soul-crushing bullet points.
Most resumes don't just fail to land an interview; they actually frighten the people reading them. If your CV looks like a ransom note written in Comic Sans or a technical manual for a 1980s VCR, it is time for an intervention. At Career Bloom Solutions, we believe your resume should be a trailer for a summer blockbuster. It should not be a jump scare in a low-budget horror flick.
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