Rapid Resume Review: Product Manager w/ a STEM Degree

Part of our role as Recruiters is to represent our candidates in the best possible light. Thus, we often offer resume reviews to help candidates build a resume that better highlights their skills and accomplishments.

Meet Krishna! Krishna is a working Product Manager with an Engineering degree and a Master’s Degree from one of the top schools in Canada, the University of Waterloo. In this video, our Product Practice Lead offers tips on how to reimagine your product resume and make it more impactful.

There comes a time in everyone’s career when a resume needs to be reimagined from that of a fresh graduate, to that of a working professional.

Each of us reaches a point in our careers when our resumes must be reimagined from that of a fresh graduate to that of a working professional.

A fresh graduate resume is one which includes Education and Professional Development at the top. However, once you gain real-world experience as a full-time employee, it’s your employment experience that will make an employer want to interview you, so it should come before education.

Here are our top 3 tips to help reimagine your product resume:

Move an employer to action

This is the objective of a resume. Your resume’s main goal is to book a call with you. You should always focus on this when creating your resume.

Focus on what the employer cares about

To move an employer to action, we want to help the employer get to what they care about, which are:

• Where do you work?
• What have you accomplished? i.e outcomes

Put employment experience at the top

Ensuring that your work experience and achievements are ‘above the fold’ and presented in a way that highlights your strengths will help separate you from other applicants.

We hope you benefit from this Rapid Resume Review! If you would like to submit your resume and participate in our Rapid Resume Review, please email resumereviews@mbassett.com.