Steven Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

It's resume time.

I sure hope this isn't true for you, but lots of us are pounding the pavement looking for jobs.

Oh, we thought we had nice, stable employment, and then wham! The economy collapses,

bank CEOs get $100 million bonuses, and we get to dust off our resumes. There's only one

problem. Several million other people are dusting off their resumes at the same time. When your

resume lands on someone's desk, you want that person to find your resume,

more impressive, more amazing, and more valuable than any of the other resumes.

Let's review some of the principles of writing good resumes.

First of all, tell the truth.

I know you're proud of that fictitious past you've created complete with endorsements from the queen.

Drop it. Tell the truth. Lots of people lie on their resumes and they often get found out.

Even if it takes decades to discover the lie, you can get fired for it. And besides, it's just plain wrong.

You wouldn't be happy if they lied about the salary they were going to pay you, would you?

Lead with specific action verbs. Listen to these. I worked on the hovercraft system, and

designed, tested, and deployed hovercraft system. The second is much stronger. It starts with

action verbs that are much more specific than worked on. Since the subject of virtually

every sentence in a resume is I, you can leave it out and go straight to the exciting verbs.

If your actions led to impressive results, put those first. You're being hired for your results.

Your work history only matters because it tells the reader a credible story about why they

should believe you can produce those results. So, when they're impressive, lead with the results.

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