How to Prepare your Project Manager Resumé - Part 1/2

In this series of two podcasts Ricardo gives some tips about how to prepare correctly a resumé for the project management area. He explains how to insert your professional background, courses and experience. He describes in detail how to put your credentials (PMP, PgMP, CAPM, etc) in order to maximize your curriculum in a selection process. Part 1 of 2 podcasts.

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Speaker 1 (4s): Hello, everybody. Welcome to the five minutes PMP podcast today. I like to give you some tips of how to build your head's to meet your CV. First, your CV. It's a very important piece of your advertisement to a potential new one employee or also new customer. And this is your brand. It's your image? So the general aspect of all resumes is that it must be short. And a lot of people felt, Oh, it must be one page.

I personally, I don't see any problem of having a two page resume, but you need to have information to feel it I'm much more worried about the content. Then one or two pages. Why the people in the recruiting area, they require one page resume it's for two reasons, basically first its to speed up the process. So it's much easier for me with our one page to find out everything I went into to select the potential candidates.

And second, our souls it's two C how good you are in preparing shop and objective documents. So to see if you are a prolix or not products, man, So, this is very important to, and some tips. So one or two pages, second, be extremely professional in the way in the visual presentation of your CV. It's very important to do that.

So avoid this kind of fonts, different fonts and with like manuscripts and vary with a lot of details, trying to be modern presses and sharp, avoid callers, avoid images. So it's really, really important. Or for sure this can vary by from one country to another one. But it's very important that this is like your folder. Your resume is your folder is the way that you sell yourself to someone else.

And it's very important also to reveal the language. If you are producing your CV in English, make sure that your English is perfect. Check. One thing is to do a mistake while sending an email or a while recording this podcast. For example, the owner, I think it's a very hard and a terrible mistake in your city because if someone Reid that they will say, Oh God, what is that?

So take care of this. Now I'd like to talk a little bit about the content. So the formation, what I like to suggest you first, you need to show all your student background in the chronological way, coming from the most recent two, the oldest ones. So if you have a PhD, a master degree in a college degree, you need to put first the PhD sack on the master come from the most relevant and most important two.

The last important in, in its sometimes it's really pointless to show. Where did you study in your undergrad? Maybe, maybe this can be a differential in some places, but if you don't think that you study in something extremely unique, you should not put that. I think the second credentials and certifications, you must highlight all credentials.

If you are a PMP, you don't need to explain what is a PMP PMP and then put 10 lines because first you don't have enough space and the, you are not an advertising about the PGMP. You are at the advertising about you put PMP and now So put the date you became PMP. So if you are PMP, if you are a CSM from the scrum Alliance, if you are a certified project manager level be from IPMA.

So put this in the chronological order from the most recent two, the oldest one, and also, or the most relevant to the last relevant that you think. And if you think not four PMP, but if you think that you are a CSM and CSM, it's a certified scrum master, maybe in some fields, they will not understand what is that. Then you can put in brackets, the website, more information at www dot dot org.

So this is more than enough because if he or she has curiosity to understand what is that they will check, they will check. They will click on that or they will check on the web. So you do need to explain this third one courses only put in your bio, the courses that are really, really unique and relevant. Don't put all ideas are windows 3.1 course in 1991.

This isn't relevant for now. So put only the courses that you really think that they are extremely good. And the differential for you in your advertisement. Remember, it's very important to understand curriculum bio it's really, really important as an advertisement piece and you need to put inside only true things. Only through things next week, I will explain to you, how do you put and you insert your project experience on your bill.

So see you next week with another five minutes. PMP Podcast about resume. See you next week.

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