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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

So new year, new you, new job? I don't know, just throwing it out there if you're working say 40 hours a week

That is a huge part of your life. It'd be good to like your job and also to get paid fairly for your work and there are circumstances

where you know maybe you do like your job but it's time for a change so on today's

episode of Life Kit we are going to help you update your resume.

This is something that career coach, Cynthia Pong,

from Embrace Change, says we should all be doing

at least every six months.

With everything that happens nowadays,

I mean, all of our brains are way over-taxed so even from a memory

standpoint it's great to refresh it every six months even if you're not actively

looking for anything maybe January 23rd you'll be at an event and meet the right

person who'll tell you about a job opening and they'll be like send me a

resume. You don't want to have to rush home and update it then you want to be

cool about it collected.

Yeah it's kind of one of those be ready so you don't have to get ready type of things.

Cynthia and I are going to talk about how to format your resume, how to write a summary at the top, what categories to put on there, and

what you can leave out.

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