Use these tips to ensure that your perfectly formatted, never more than one-page resume tells your story as both a person and professional.
The HIVE5 Process helps you build a perfectly formatted resume - one that you can use and update going forward for applications both in and outside of HIVE's platform. Reviewing the below content (read this entire thing, it's worth it!) and incorporating all of the resources provided in Level 2, Be Yourself (in HIVE's platform via app.hellohive.com) can help you very quickly develop a final deliverable that looks like the below!
You can update your resume from the Digital Profile on your account, from the main menu. Each section will open on your profile and using the pencil icon, you can update/add anything you'd like (and see options of where you can have content that currently you do not).
SWEET TIPS FOR YOUR HIVE RESUME
Use All Available Lines: To ensure you’re using as much space as possible on your resume, you can use the below tips. Try to use all available lines to ensure your resume is as full as possible using the following tips to maximize each section.
- More Bullets for your Experiences: For your most recent and applicable internships or other professional experiences, please add more details and more bullet points; it's ideal to take 4-6 lines minimum for each entry.
Education Section: Below are a few more items that will help make your resume as sweet as possible.
- LinkedIn URL: You can add this to your header by inputting your URL from the preferences section of your digital profile.
- Coursework: You can add Relevant Coursework to your resume using the field in the Education section from your digital profile. We suggest no more than 2 lines of coursework. You can preview how many lines you're using with the resume preview icon at the bottom of your menu.
- GPA: Include this if over a 3.0. You can only include Major GPAs if you have also included your Cumulative GPA.
- Research & Other Academic Projects: Use this section to include any projects you’ve worked on in classes, with peers, that wouldn’t typically fall into internship or work experience.
- Scholarship Programs that require continued effort and commitment during your time in college
- Research Projects from interesting classes or other programs
- Bootcamps and Other Certification Programs that required a time commitment to achieve
- High School: If at the end of this exercise, you're still not using all available lines, and/or if you have significant honors from high school that are relevant to your career trajectory, you can leave your high school information on your resume.
Write the Right Way: Here are some tips to ensure you’re providing the right about of detail and content for all of your bullets - wherever they are on your resume but most often in your Experience and Leadership/Other Activities sections.
- Chain-Link Function for Bullet Points: To provide more details in a bullet point, use the chain-link icon to make your bullet point 2 full lines and extend the available characters by 2x.
- STARS Format for Bullets: Bullet points need to be written in STARS format (which is detailed in the HIVE platform), but quickly can be defined by starting with an active verb, and then giving details about what you did, how you did it, and what impact you had/results achieved/what you learned.
- Verb Tense: Make sure the active verbs you use in each of your bullets match whether the experience is still in the present or has been completed already.
- Verbs: Start every bullet with a DIFFERENT active verb. Stay away from soft verbs like "helped" or "assisted."
Additional Tips: Below are a few more items that will help make your resume as sweet as possible.
- Use Space Efficiently: Bullet points should at minimum go 2/3 across the page, and a second line of a 2-line bullet point should go at least ½ across the page. Scan your resume to see if by chance you have any lines on your resume being used for only a few words, dates or other entries. If so, you can update that section, condense the content into a previous line – or extend the second line across the page – so that you’re using space efficiently.
- My Diversities: If you'd like, you can include your self-identified diverse backgrounds and identities on your resume in the Skills & Interests section. Remember, no HIVE company will ever see your information until you've made the first move - chosen to apply to a position that you're qualified for.