We were given a list of basic items to change on our resume (list the college graduation date instead of period of enrollment, remove your high school, etc.) and some broader concepts to tackle as well (talk about non-technical skills such as leadership and communication).
To keep my resume to one page, I've needed to slash things over the years. One thing that I find especially interesting is how I will actually need to leave off some software or technologies that I have picked up but aren't really relevant anymore. I have a "pack rat" mentality and would like to put everything I've ever learned or used on my resume, despite how cluttered that would look.
Photo taken from the National Park service website.One example of something I irrationally want to keep is my work with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. I took a graphic design class back in high school, about six years ago.
There is no reason to keep that on my resume. I'm not planning on ever looking for a graphic design job, and I sucked at graphic design anyway!
Some actually relevant stuff is also getting removed. For example, the programming languages C and MIPS are being removed. I've spent at most five hours working with either of those languages, and would probably crumple like a wet paper bag if asked questions about them in an interview.
To appease my childish side, I'm keeping a text file with a list of the stuff I'm slashing in case I ever need to browse the list for some improbable situation.
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luls i only do c now
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