Building a resume draft
Author: Stefan Waldvogel
How can you build your draft?
At one point, you start with an empty page, and you do not know what you can write. You can use a trick to fill your bullet points quickly. Let us say your goal is SOC Analyst. This page has two sections, one with work experience and one without.
With work experience:
Here you can use LinkedIn to find job postings about it.
With work experience:
Here you can use LinkedIn to find job postings about it.
Under responsibilities, there are bullet points. These points are goals what a company wants. If you start with an empty word document, add "your own" bullet points. You get a massive list of relevant skills, and you get the "right" wording.
Each bullet point starts with an action verb, and it sounds right.
If you do this for one or two hours, you get a massive list of things you did in the past.
If you had multiple jobs in the past, you could do this for each position. In the past, I worked as a Sysadmin, and I can add these things:
Each bullet point starts with an action verb, and it sounds right.
If you do this for one or two hours, you get a massive list of things you did in the past.
If you had multiple jobs in the past, you could do this for each position. In the past, I worked as a Sysadmin, and I can add these things:
This structure is somewhat different, and you see phrases like: "Knowledge of" or "Experience with." These are level indicators, and you have to adjust them according to your knowledge level.
There are three different levels of knowledge:
With this data, you build your first data draft. You will never send it you an employer, but you get a nice list for HR.
I am a student (without work experience)!
You do not have a job and you might never had, but you can use course descriptions to create a similar list. Maybe you did certifications, and most of them are on Acclaim/Credly. Here you find a list of your skills, and it could look like this (source: RangeForce SOC 2 badge):
There are three different levels of knowledge:
- Knowledge of / with -> I have heard of it
- Proficient in -> I use it on a daily base
- Expert in -> I know it so well I could teach it
With this data, you build your first data draft. You will never send it you an employer, but you get a nice list for HR.
I am a student (without work experience)!
You do not have a job and you might never had, but you can use course descriptions to create a similar list. Maybe you did certifications, and most of them are on Acclaim/Credly. Here you find a list of your skills, and it could look like this (source: RangeForce SOC 2 badge):
Here you can write:
Knowledge of security assessment tools.
Not everything is useful because "be able to create perfect incidents...." is for sure not the level you have after taking this certification.
Knowledge of security assessment tools.
Not everything is useful because "be able to create perfect incidents...." is for sure not the level you have after taking this certification.
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