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Hey, everybody, it's Mariel.

Do you like your job?

If you're working, say, 40 hours a week, that's a huge part of your life.

It'd be good to be into your work, at least to an extent, right?

And also to get paid fairly for it.

Or maybe you do like your job, but you feel like it's time for a change.

On this episode of Life Kit, we're 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 overtaxed. So even from a memory standpoint, it's great to refresh it every six months, even if you're not actively looking for anything. Because let's say sometime in the future, you're out at an event and you meet the right person. They tell you about a job opening and they're like, hey, send me your resume. You don't want to have to rush home and update it then. You want to be cool about it. Collect it. 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. And hopefully we're

going to bring you one step closer to that job you want.

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All right, we're brushing up our resumes. Takeaway one. We want them to look clean.

So we'll start with our personal information at the top and keep it basic.

Right. So there are a few critical components that every resume should have regardless of industry specific kind of requirements. The first thing is, of course, at the top, your name, contact info. Do you need to put your physical address? No. You know, unless it's a situation where you really want to show that you

have local community ties, something like that, and it's relevant, you do not have to include that.

And even if you do, it can suffice simply to put a city and a state. If you're applying to a role

where you really want it and it seems to

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