I just need enough to pay rent dude yeah. I feel like then. You probably shouldn't put the objective element but yeah actually. This so this brings up a question or a point. That I wanted to make I've seen people in my youtube comments or on Twitter saying like oh hell yeah my objective is to make money. I should be honest about that right like what's wrong about that and I get. Where you're coming from. That you do want to make money and I get. That some jobs are clearly a stepping stone to your real career objectives but if you're.
That blunt then you're basically just telling the person hiring you I don't actually care about your company I'm just in this for the money and you know what maybe. They view you as a completely expendable resource to be used up until. You are no longer useful then tossed into a trash heap in which case sure. You you can pair up and go about your merry way but more likely. Than not they're looking for somebody who at least expresses. Some amount of interest in helping the company grow into. Something better yeah and if that's not the case.
If it's just they're a little too blunt. If you've got a deal with. You know you're hiring for Burger King or some you need to be able to lie about how much you care about things so. That the customers don't understand. How annoyed. You are yeah. If you're just gonna be like yeah. I don't really care about your day. What do you want to buy then that's not good you're showing a little bit of your ability to like put icing onto nonsense and beyond just. That showing that you care. More about a job. Than just the money. That it's gonna give.
You is important for yourself and your own pride so. You do not actually care about increasing the quarterly sales of Burger King incorporated which you probably don't the attitude. You bring to those jobs those early jobs. You know the burger-flipping jobs or the lawn mowing jobs or whatever. That attitude translates to your work ethic and the way. You handle yourself in your later jobs so. You should never go into a job simply thinking I just want to get money from this you should be thinking I want to prove myself I want to better myself at least in terms of work ethic. Nothing else and I want to use. This as a stepping stone to my next thing and I'm gonna do.
That by coming into work every single day with a smile on my face and with the intention to do my best job yeah and if. You never say boy oh boy I'm just really passionate about putting together flame-broiled burgers like they're going to hire. Because you look like. Somebody who is going to take the job seriously. Whereas you are literally blunt and honest about I just want money it's just like you're showing nothing but a sell fish desire well you're also saying I will do the bare minimum required to earn said money. Because I have no other external or internal desires yeah that's true yeah so never never just say I'm in it for the money like.
Everybody knows. You want money. Everybody knows. That at least be in it to show. That you're a good worker. You know at least be an ax to develop a little bit professionally. If not for the passion of the burger work the passion of the burger that's a weird movie beautiful okay so let's just like go through the sections of the resume. You know stage by stage and just comment on some of the things. You might want to see in here and you actually have yours up like yeah real. One okay yeah yeah. I didn't like handle Dutton your paper.
One is kind of a joke yeah. That may be a leftover from. Another video. That is true actually yeah people who are listening to this they probably saw. It in a video potentially okay so the first thing that I have on my resume is the education and I guess. One question is like. What do you put first your work experience or your education. I guess I had education at the top yeah brannad. This I had just graduated so. I feel like. That well I guess. That depends on the job. That someday the work experience may trump. That and go first. I feel like education becomes less and less important as. You like the CEO of Google. I don't really care.
He graduated he's the CEO of Google. You know and yeah that's more important to me yeah but yeah at this time education went up front hmm that's where - - and well. I have to say like. I don't really foresee myself using my resume ever again in my life because of the path I've chosen but you know so. This is kind of a reflection of you know. I was as a student actually looking for full-time employment but I think. You and I are. Now five years out of college. We are probably to the point. It would make sense to put work experience first. Because like. Now have a five year career. Now have a career. That is longer. Than the time. You spent in college well not. Because you were in college he's getting close. Though but you're getting close I'm well past. It I've been out of college for longer. I was ever in college so at this point. I would put work experience first again. You have a well formative resume. I don't think.
This is gonna matter. Because you know within the first like four inches from the top of the sheet of paper. You can see a nice big headline. That says education and a nice big headline. That says work experience and by the way I'm gonna have my resume in the show notes my resumes been public on my personal website for years as an example for people so we'll have a link to that and you guys can go look at it as an example. You want and I'm hoping that we're gonna have. Some more examples in our resume blog post. That I mentioned earlier so in the education section. I list my University. I went to the location of it my major and then my GPA as well. I also have two majors listed so I've got my major GPA and my normal GPA the reason. That I decided to list. Both is because my major GPA was a 40 out of 40.
That does some worth mentioning yeah and so. I will clarify. That this resume was created. This particular copy was created before. I graduated so. I don't think. I got straight A's in literally every single major class. Because during senior year. More concerned with Entrepreneurship perfect grades as. I should have been but when. I created this I had a 40 perfect GPA in the major so a major GPA is basically. Any class that is in your your specific major track so. If you're in computer science there's probably like a required computer science curriculum at your university and there's probably required electives and required yeah speech in English and stuff like. That all of that would be considered outside of your major so those would contribute to your normal GPA a good rule to mention here is that your major GPA is something that you can list in lieu of your GPA. If your GPA is below like a 32 or a 30 but basically.
You have a GPA below 3 don't list. It on your major or on your resume ok. Because it's just again it's about putting that front foot forward and if the first like. If the foot forward you're putting is I have bad grades then you're not gonna get the interest of the hiring manager. Whereas you leave. It off and you create a resume. That piques their interest in another way and then. You get into the interview and they ask. You about your grades. You can tell them my grades aren't perfect you're not lying but the reason. That my grades aren't perfect are. You know you could say maybe. I had a bad semester. Once but I've been working to build myself back up and you can kind of spin. That into a story about how you've been making concentrated improvements in your life or you could say. You know I'm very passionate about entrepreneurship or I'm very passionate about this volunteer work. That I do so my grades are not my main priority and I think.
That the skills. I build in this volunteer opportunity actually translate better to the role. That you're hiring for then my English Composition class there's always a story. You can tell but you don't get a huge opportunity to tell a story on your resume yeah so. What are your thoughts on the work experience section well mine here is listing the two. Most important and recent jobs at the time for the position so I've had like quite a few jobs. I don't know how. Many and I've got a master list of all my jobs. You never know. It somewhere but for each resume. I pick the two or three. Most important ones. Most impressive for that segment so. If I'm doing desktop support like application. I have a bunch of jobs. That fit that I will get those but for a web development thing which was. What this for what this was for I'm gonna put specifically my web development jobs. Because they don't care anyway and most reason yeah yeah yeah like as long as they're recent enough. That I can talk about them and it's not like.
This was ten years ago. I barely remember. It then I probably wouldn't put. That makes sense yeah but this is fresh stuff. Because I had jobs frequently and switched between them like. I had to at one point in college. Because there was a desktop support and a web dev so yeah why not list the web dev for this mm-hmm yeah so here's a good point. When you're listing your work experience. You want to consider the context of the position you're applying for and then put. That work experience first the work experience. That that best showcases the skills. That that position needs yeah but there is a balancing act so. You know being hired for an IT position. I wouldn't want to put my IT services experience at the University first. Because that job ended in 2011 yeah it's like not recent enough exactly yes so.
They were like oh. You did this seven years ago and what have. You been doing since then like. You never want your resume to bring up a question in the interviewers head of like. What have you been doing you know are your golden years behind. That kind of a thing oh you're past your prime kid get out of here exactly but I'm 23 yep past. It you're benched you're like a figure skater. You peak at 19 that's sad oh no it's sad for it was. That for me. Because I got into. It at like 24 or 25 and then. All the reading I was doing was just like yeah Olympic figure skaters are like 20. I never really had. Any ambitions to do to go to the Olympics for that cuz it's kind of a hobby for me but it was just a little bit it's never nice to hear like it's too late for something yeah yeah yeah. You got into. This but you know the age for peak performance is well past sorry but um my my confidence was restored.
I watched some former Olympians doing routines in their like 30s and 40s and they can still bust out triple axels and stuff so it's not like. I can never learn to do those things. I would just never be yeah. You reach the levels of performance. That the Olympians can do and that's fine. I never intended to do. That in the first place yeah okay so obviously. You want to order your work experience in a balanced way. That showcases your most relevant experience first as long as. It is somewhat recent. If you've been doing something else for like ten years. That isn't quite as relevant put. That first because that's like. You have really crazy yeah and then. You are actually describing your experiences. You want to keep a few things in mind number. One accomplishments over duties so.
That blunt then you're basically just telling the person hiring you I don't actually care about your company I'm just in this for the money and you know what maybe. They view you as a completely expendable resource to be used up until. You are no longer useful then tossed into a trash heap in which case sure. You you can pair up and go about your merry way but more likely. Than not they're looking for somebody who at least expresses. Some amount of interest in helping the company grow into. Something better yeah and if that's not the case.
If it's just they're a little too blunt. If you've got a deal with. You know you're hiring for Burger King or some you need to be able to lie about how much you care about things so. That the customers don't understand. How annoyed. You are yeah. If you're just gonna be like yeah. I don't really care about your day. What do you want to buy then that's not good you're showing a little bit of your ability to like put icing onto nonsense and beyond just. That showing that you care. More about a job. Than just the money. That it's gonna give.
You is important for yourself and your own pride so. You do not actually care about increasing the quarterly sales of Burger King incorporated which you probably don't the attitude. You bring to those jobs those early jobs. You know the burger-flipping jobs or the lawn mowing jobs or whatever. That attitude translates to your work ethic and the way. You handle yourself in your later jobs so. You should never go into a job simply thinking I just want to get money from this you should be thinking I want to prove myself I want to better myself at least in terms of work ethic. Nothing else and I want to use. This as a stepping stone to my next thing and I'm gonna do.
That by coming into work every single day with a smile on my face and with the intention to do my best job yeah and if. You never say boy oh boy I'm just really passionate about putting together flame-broiled burgers like they're going to hire. Because you look like. Somebody who is going to take the job seriously. Whereas you are literally blunt and honest about I just want money it's just like you're showing nothing but a sell fish desire well you're also saying I will do the bare minimum required to earn said money. Because I have no other external or internal desires yeah that's true yeah so never never just say I'm in it for the money like.
Everybody knows. You want money. Everybody knows. That at least be in it to show. That you're a good worker. You know at least be an ax to develop a little bit professionally. If not for the passion of the burger work the passion of the burger that's a weird movie beautiful okay so let's just like go through the sections of the resume. You know stage by stage and just comment on some of the things. You might want to see in here and you actually have yours up like yeah real. One okay yeah yeah. I didn't like handle Dutton your paper.
One is kind of a joke yeah. That may be a leftover from. Another video. That is true actually yeah people who are listening to this they probably saw. It in a video potentially okay so the first thing that I have on my resume is the education and I guess. One question is like. What do you put first your work experience or your education. I guess I had education at the top yeah brannad. This I had just graduated so. I feel like. That well I guess. That depends on the job. That someday the work experience may trump. That and go first. I feel like education becomes less and less important as. You like the CEO of Google. I don't really care.
He graduated he's the CEO of Google. You know and yeah that's more important to me yeah but yeah at this time education went up front hmm that's where - - and well. I have to say like. I don't really foresee myself using my resume ever again in my life because of the path I've chosen but you know so. This is kind of a reflection of you know. I was as a student actually looking for full-time employment but I think. You and I are. Now five years out of college. We are probably to the point. It would make sense to put work experience first. Because like. Now have a five year career. Now have a career. That is longer. Than the time. You spent in college well not. Because you were in college he's getting close. Though but you're getting close I'm well past. It I've been out of college for longer. I was ever in college so at this point. I would put work experience first again. You have a well formative resume. I don't think.
This is gonna matter. Because you know within the first like four inches from the top of the sheet of paper. You can see a nice big headline. That says education and a nice big headline. That says work experience and by the way I'm gonna have my resume in the show notes my resumes been public on my personal website for years as an example for people so we'll have a link to that and you guys can go look at it as an example. You want and I'm hoping that we're gonna have. Some more examples in our resume blog post. That I mentioned earlier so in the education section. I list my University. I went to the location of it my major and then my GPA as well. I also have two majors listed so I've got my major GPA and my normal GPA the reason. That I decided to list. Both is because my major GPA was a 40 out of 40.
That does some worth mentioning yeah and so. I will clarify. That this resume was created. This particular copy was created before. I graduated so. I don't think. I got straight A's in literally every single major class. Because during senior year. More concerned with Entrepreneurship perfect grades as. I should have been but when. I created this I had a 40 perfect GPA in the major so a major GPA is basically. Any class that is in your your specific major track so. If you're in computer science there's probably like a required computer science curriculum at your university and there's probably required electives and required yeah speech in English and stuff like. That all of that would be considered outside of your major so those would contribute to your normal GPA a good rule to mention here is that your major GPA is something that you can list in lieu of your GPA. If your GPA is below like a 32 or a 30 but basically.
You have a GPA below 3 don't list. It on your major or on your resume ok. Because it's just again it's about putting that front foot forward and if the first like. If the foot forward you're putting is I have bad grades then you're not gonna get the interest of the hiring manager. Whereas you leave. It off and you create a resume. That piques their interest in another way and then. You get into the interview and they ask. You about your grades. You can tell them my grades aren't perfect you're not lying but the reason. That my grades aren't perfect are. You know you could say maybe. I had a bad semester. Once but I've been working to build myself back up and you can kind of spin. That into a story about how you've been making concentrated improvements in your life or you could say. You know I'm very passionate about entrepreneurship or I'm very passionate about this volunteer work. That I do so my grades are not my main priority and I think.
That the skills. I build in this volunteer opportunity actually translate better to the role. That you're hiring for then my English Composition class there's always a story. You can tell but you don't get a huge opportunity to tell a story on your resume yeah so. What are your thoughts on the work experience section well mine here is listing the two. Most important and recent jobs at the time for the position so I've had like quite a few jobs. I don't know how. Many and I've got a master list of all my jobs. You never know. It somewhere but for each resume. I pick the two or three. Most important ones. Most impressive for that segment so. If I'm doing desktop support like application. I have a bunch of jobs. That fit that I will get those but for a web development thing which was. What this for what this was for I'm gonna put specifically my web development jobs. Because they don't care anyway and most reason yeah yeah yeah like as long as they're recent enough. That I can talk about them and it's not like.
This was ten years ago. I barely remember. It then I probably wouldn't put. That makes sense yeah but this is fresh stuff. Because I had jobs frequently and switched between them like. I had to at one point in college. Because there was a desktop support and a web dev so yeah why not list the web dev for this mm-hmm yeah so here's a good point. When you're listing your work experience. You want to consider the context of the position you're applying for and then put. That work experience first the work experience. That that best showcases the skills. That that position needs yeah but there is a balancing act so. You know being hired for an IT position. I wouldn't want to put my IT services experience at the University first. Because that job ended in 2011 yeah it's like not recent enough exactly yes so.
They were like oh. You did this seven years ago and what have. You been doing since then like. You never want your resume to bring up a question in the interviewers head of like. What have you been doing you know are your golden years behind. That kind of a thing oh you're past your prime kid get out of here exactly but I'm 23 yep past. It you're benched you're like a figure skater. You peak at 19 that's sad oh no it's sad for it was. That for me. Because I got into. It at like 24 or 25 and then. All the reading I was doing was just like yeah Olympic figure skaters are like 20. I never really had. Any ambitions to do to go to the Olympics for that cuz it's kind of a hobby for me but it was just a little bit it's never nice to hear like it's too late for something yeah yeah yeah. You got into. This but you know the age for peak performance is well past sorry but um my my confidence was restored.
I watched some former Olympians doing routines in their like 30s and 40s and they can still bust out triple axels and stuff so it's not like. I can never learn to do those things. I would just never be yeah. You reach the levels of performance. That the Olympians can do and that's fine. I never intended to do. That in the first place yeah okay so obviously. You want to order your work experience in a balanced way. That showcases your most relevant experience first as long as. It is somewhat recent. If you've been doing something else for like ten years. That isn't quite as relevant put. That first because that's like. You have really crazy yeah and then. You are actually describing your experiences. You want to keep a few things in mind number. One accomplishments over duties so.
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