The Two Minute Resume and Interviewing Guide

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Your job probably consists of solving hard problems or delivering projects or both.

So your resume should say what your company does and, if it is obvious (Central Bank and Trust, for example), it should also say the department where you work: Consumer? Treasurer’s Office? Capital Markets? This will give context to whatever it is that you do.

Pick the projects that best describe your mastery over the skills you want someone to buy from you; if it is not on your resume you will be deep into the interview before you get past this.

Explain it to them in detail using this format:

Name the problem to be solved (or the project to be completed)

Name your resources (time, people, technology, budget)

Tell them the outcome, if the outcome can be expressed as a metric: earned, saved, increased, decreased; then that is the first piece of information that should be seen regarding the project, and put it in bold. Saved $7,000,000, I promise, that will get read.

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