How To Write a Resume For Any Job in 15 Minutes?

 

This method is the simplest way to write a resume in 15 minutes for any position you're targeting!

It takes only 7 steps, and you'll have your resume ready in no time.

Here's how it's done:

Step 1- Write down 5 points that define you as a person. The list should be about yourself, like what you are passionate about or what type of life goals you want to achieve. You can use personal examples from your biography to illustrate them. "I'm an ambitious self-starter with leadership skills." - This is one of my 5 points. The other 4 are just like this one but more detailed. They allow me to explain myself better and show my true personality through short stories.

Step 2- Take your list of 5 points and divide them up into 3 different categories. Make sure you have enough content for each category to fill one page. Now you're ready to create your resume outline. Here's an example for my "5 points" from above:

Personal Summary (about myself) - 1 paragraph  (I'm using the first point from step 1.) Career (education) - 2 paragraphs Experience (work experience) - 2 paragraphs

What do I put under Personal Summary? I can tell about my education, professional goals, or achievements that are related to this field... What do I put under “Career” (Education)? I will put my education, including graduation dates and most important courses… What do I put under “Experience”? Write down all of my job experiences where I used the skills from the first point on my list. 

Step 3 (optional)-  Now you have a skeleton of your resume ready for writing points 2 & 3. That's great! But what if you want to show some different sides of yourself in your resume? You're an experienced professional and a young student who wants to get involved in his free time. Now it doesn't fit well into this structure, or feel like everything is too long. To solve these problems, we need to divide our draft outline into different sections. Here are some examples:

Resume outline that shows different sides of a person

Step 4-  I’ve suggested the previous two options because I think it's better to make your resume unique and not look like you just copied someone else's format. Now, if you don't need this flexibility or want to save time, do the following: list all of your positions on one page with a short description (around 3 sentences) under each position in bullet points; after that, write a summary at the end which briefly covers everything! And that's almost it for step 4!

Now it gets straightforward...

Step 5 is only to add 2-3 sentences to each paragraph from our draft outline and changes the order. The result is a perfect resume outline that you can quickly write on any computer or print out.

Step 6- If you need 10 minutes to write your resume, I suggest using this time for editing and adding more details to the paragraphs from step 5. But if you want to save your time, there's another solution: Choose 3-4 bullet points from each position and put them in order! (I know it seems obvious, but this is actually what most of us do.) Then add some details about yourself at the end and fill in the rest with examples of your work experience. It may not be as good as writing everything by hand but compared to doing nothing, it's still lightning-fast progress! This part took me 5 minutes total.

Step 7- Now, you can rewrite your resume a few times with the new outline until it sounds perfect enough for an employer. Your whole preparation process will take about 15 minutes! But do not forget to read the next step since employers still may make some changes to your resume before you hand it in.

Working on my resume, I noticed that most of my colleagues write their resumes from scratch every time, which makes me wonder… Why don't they save up that time? After all, writing down a great CV only takes 10 minutes, so why shouldn't they save their valuable time and use this structure as a detailed example instead of wasting hours typing away in Word? Wouldn't that be more effective?! Of course, it would! I think if more people knew about this trick, they'd spend less time on resume formatting and more time doing valuable things!

 

I hope you find this article helpful. Let me know what I can improve or any questions, comments, or suggestions for future tutorials!

Thanks :)