Hey, there. My name's Ronnie, and we've all come through the pandemic. We've made it.
Congratulations, if you're watching this in whatever year it is. But you obviously made
it because you're watching this, so congratulations. But some things have changed, and I don't
know about you, but during the pandemic, there was a lot of jobs that were just made obsolete,
which means bye-bye jobs. A lot of reshifting, restructuring businesses, like to say. That
means you get fired. A lot of people started working from home. A lot of people hated that.
And basically, a lot of people had to look for a new job. And by the time that you kind
of look for a new job, it wasn't like looking for a job before when you had your little
resume and you had your employment status and all this stuff down. Basically, times
have changed, and I'm here to update you on what you need to have a shiny, new 2000-whatever
year this is, resume. So let's go... Actually, it's 2027. No, I don't even know what year
it is. Let's not bother with that. So, how to update your resume. And it's going to be
quite easy because you just have to take a lot of stuff off. You don't have to change
it too much. And honestly, I think resumes are kind of stupid. Like, you have to put
this here, and then you have to put this here. Why can't I put it at the top, and then this
at the bottom? People are like, "Oh, no. Do you know what? This person's put their education
before their work experience, so they're just not going to get the job. We're not even going
to consider them." I don't know what happens in the minds of HR departments, but I guess
they like it formal in a very structured way. But then when I look on templates, which means
like an easy fill-in thing you can get on Google or Yahoo or whatever, they have a different
format. So I'm really confused. I'm just like, "Just make your own. But don't put these things
on it, okay?" There you go. Choose a format you like, one you're comfortable with, one
that's free, and go and get that job. A really good tip that I can tell you is during the
pandemic, a lot of us were kind of doing our old jobs, and we didn't have any skills updated
as conferences because we couldn't go to them. But all of your virtual meetings that you
sat through-oh, god, weren't they so boring?-anyways, you can put those on your resume to update
your skills section, like, "Oh, I did a webinar on customer service for, I don't know, COVID
violations and all this." Anything that you've done as a webinar or anything online, courses
that you took, maybe you upgraded some things, don't forget to put that in your resume because
it shows that you've still been active during COVID. You weren't just sitting in your pajamas
all day, drinking wine from a teacup. No, you were doing the webinar, okay? Stay with
me here.
So, update your resume. First of all, guess what? You're not allowed to put your address
because nobody's going to come to your house. Oh, and make sure you're not working. Never
put your address. You don't want your boss to come to your house and say, "Hey, I thought
you were sick today, but you're not home." So, please, please, please, remove your address.
You are allowed to put your city, apparently, and/or your country, but because a lot of
our jobs now are remote, we don't even need this. So, what you're going to put, obviously,
"Hey, we're allowed to write our names. That's fun." And you can put your email address.
Just put one, okay? And make sure it's not a silly address that has... I don't know.
I like to drive cars naked at gmail.com. Make sure your email's a little bit professional.
Go on to Gmail and get a new one that says, "I'm a professional. This is my email at gmail.com."
Name, gmail. If you have LinkedIn, put that... A link to your LinkedIn, make sure it works.
Don't put your Facebook. Don't put your Instagram unless it's part of your business because
nobody wants to see you and your 10 friends going tobogganing with lollipops. No, I want
to see that. Send them to me. I want to see your lollipop tobogganing Instagram posts.
Okay? That's just me. Don't send them to your boss. So, all you need, take out your address,
put in your name and your email address. This is an important one, too. If you've been working
at the same company for a long time, and now you decide, "Oh, guess what? I'm going to
get a new job." Anything over 15 years old, so back in, I don't know, high school or back
in university, basically after the year 2000, forget about it. 2010, you're doing well.
So anything past 2010, you can keep on your resume. It's just not relevant. What you did
15 years ago has nothing to do with what you want to do in the future. Hopefully you've
evolved.
This was fun, too. Objective statement. "Hi. My name's Ronnie, and I really love to have
a job at your company because I think you're a great company." Bullshit. We don't have
to put this bullshit anymore. The objective statement, it's out of there. What you're
going to put on the top is something wonderful about you. You know, how long you've been
doing the job for, the job you're applying for, why you'd be a great asset to their company.
But the objective, it's out of there. Oh, never do this. Your reason for leaving the
job, oh no, no, no, no. So if you got fired from your last job or they just didn't have
a position for you because you worked in a restaurant or something, don't put that on
your resume. If they need to ask you, they might do it during your job interview, but
do not put it on your resume. It's none of their business.
This is one that I see a lot, too. It's just an English thing. For some reason, we do not
use what we call the first person pronouns, so "I", "me", and "my". Right? We don't say,
"I studied at this university. My job was..." We completely take those out and we just use
bullet points. "University", "this time". "My duties", don't say "my duties", just say "duties
included". For some reason, they don't like when you use first person because they know
it's you. This is important, too.
I have a video that you have to watch about job interview questions, what they can and
cannot ask you. It's really important you look at that and not give them information.
You definitely can't put personal information on your resume. Like, for example, your marital
status, your religion, anything that has to do with your personal information, keep it
personal because that can get into some discrimination. So, be careful. Okay? What you do after work,
it's not on your resume, just like with this one, your hobbies and interests. This is funny.
I remember when I first started teaching, they always had a thing, so, like, "hobbies
and interests". It was like, okay, well, drinking and partying... Oh, no, no, that doesn't sound
like a teacher. Oh, but you know what? I love reading. No, I hate reading. I hate reading,
but I put it on my resume. I said that... Oh, yeah, I love books. I love reading and
going to the library. I hate the library. I'm allergic to the library, but I always
put this because, you know, people like that shit. They're like, "Oh, yeah, she's a teacher.
She likes reading. This is perfect." And then they meet me and they're like, "Hey, you kind
of lied because you kind of hate... I know I hate reading, so we don't need this anymore."
So, if you like birdwatching, that's cool. Your employer doesn't need to know that. Right?
If you like going and tasting new scotches, invite me, but don't put it on your resume.
Okay? Because it's apparently not important anymore. I don't know if it ever was.
And then photos. Ooh. Nowadays we can crop our photos, make us look like movie stars,
but save those for your Instagram accounts. They're not to go on resumes anymore. Growing
up in Canada, we never had this option to put photos. They've always been left off of
the resumes, but I know in a lot of other countries, they want to see a photo of you
and... On your resume. In Canada and in America, no, no, no, no, no. You can't do it. Don't
do it. So, good luck. Always remember to make you seem like the best you ever can be or
ever will be in a job interview and on a resume. Make sure you have no grammatical or spelling
errors on your... "I've done that. I've done that. I'm guilty of that. I'm a teacher. I'm
an English teacher. And I have found, after I typed out my resume... Oh, there's a spelling
mistake. I have to do it again." So, you know that app on your computer? Download that,
I have it, and you're done. Do-do-do-do. Okay, yes. Resume has no spelling mistakes, no photos.
All of these things are now gone. You're ready to go and get a new job. Good luck out there,
and yum-yum-yum-yum-yum. Yeah, let me know if you got a new job, okay? Good luck.