The new resume
Hi. I’m Brendan Bockes. I’m a twenty-eight year old DC based job-seeker. If you’re reading this, it’s because I’m looking for experience in this space or I found this job interesting enough to apply. Below you’ll find relevant skills and projects initiated, as well as relatable material I’ve read or written.
Although I don’t have a formal degree in this field, I have acquired job-specific skills through self-learning via online instruction. I am thus by no means unambitious, I’ve simply taken a different route to acquiring an education.
Alas. Here are some things I’ve done that I think make me an ideal candidate for this position:
Experience
Skills acquired
Related projects
Books read
Posts written
Referrals
Contact Info
As it happens, demonstrable skills, relevant projects and trust are a more reliable way to evaluate job-applicable competency than interview performance, gpa and (even) where someone went to school.
If you’re still relying on the latter to get picked (or to pick someone), well, here’s the memo you never got.