How To Create a 6-Figure Resume & Professional Dossier

You need a great resume to land a 6-figure salary. Here’s how to make one, along with why you might consider an extra dossier.

This is how my eyes felt after reading hundreds of black-and-white resumes that all used the same template. 👀🌈(Photo by Diego Carneiro on Unsplash)

I used to have an awful software engineering resume, with minimal details on my specialist expertise or professional work history, all because I had become obsessed with getting my resume down to 1 page, instead of 2.

Now, I have a thorough 2-page resume that is easy to skim and demonstrates that I am a qualified lead product engineer.

Even better, I also have a 1-page “professional dossier” that helps hiring managers understand the depth of my skills, not just my work experience.

(Author’s note: US companies do not require a full curriculum vitae, or “CV”; a 1- or 2-page resume is more than enough, and the dossier is entirely optional.)

In this article, I’ll fill in the blank and show you how I went from spending countless hours trying to edit my resume down to having professional documents that have landed me jobs paying $100,000+ in annual salary.

And I’ll show you exactly how you can do the same yourself!

How I Discovered 1 Page Wasn’t Enough for Me