It's all about mind games.

I want you to take this resume.

This is a real person; we're calling her Jane Doe to protect her privacy.

What's the first thing, when you're looking at this, that you would immediately change and that jumps out at you?

First things first is the seven seconds.

The first seven seconds, when someone is gonna read your resume, will actually influence their opinion.

So, if you have all of these different fonts and lines and things happening there, you're just getting too distracted.

So, like, you're gonna be pulling in that direction and then in this direction, and then, ooh, change of font, change of front again.

Uh, the location is unnecessary.

What I would center [is] all of this information.

There should be⏤obviously⏤her name, her phone number, her email, and then a little blurb that basically summarizes you⏤or Jane, in this case, and her career.

So, the goal of this blurb is for you, in a nutshell, to tell these people why you're such a good fit in a way that you're influencing their behavior.

You're not telling them, "I'm awesome, I'm ex⏤I'm an expert."

You're leaving the information there for them to jump to that conclusion.

I was taught: do not let your resume go on to a second page, but here, we have two pages.

What do you say?

At Jane's career level and your career level...

Like, if you've been out of college for a few years, you can go with more pages.

What would you say to her to maximize her incredible experience of⏤wow, what is this⏤almost 17 years at Cedars Sinai?

Right here, there's just way too much information, too much going on.

You need to be very succinct and to the point.

The way our brain internalizes information... you need to tell them what you did, how you did it.

And then I recommend you put in a couple of key accomplishments that, numerically, give the reader on understanding of the scope of what you did.

How do we end it? I usually ended with my education.

You're snarking⏤why? Is that... is that lame?

Lame nowadays?

It really is about the experience when someone's reading through your resume.

So, you close with ja⏤with education, they'll probably get that, "Oh, you went to so and so school, or you know, okay, on to the next."

However, if you throw in⏤what we usually do is put in an "about me" section.

You're gonna throw your reader totally off guard, and you're gonna tell them something⏤

Like, what's an example? How far could you go with that?

This woman was applying for a job at Google, and when she was hired, the interview⏤the hiring manager, goes to her and says,

"You know what? You were neck-and-neck with someone else, but what really, kind of, was the deciding factor was the fact that you are into roller derby and you play the accordion."

Like, that completely sealed the deal.

And they only knew that because of her "about me" section.

Yeah, because it was completely different.