Henry Wang was in his first 12 months out of faculty, having graduated from the College of California, Irvine, when his boss gave him a suggestion.
Wang’s supervisor on the Metropolis of New York suggested him to strive his hand at authorized work earlier than making use of to legislation college. He agreed and labored as a litigation paralegal at a legislation agency for a 12 months.
“That is once I realized I hate what legal professionals do. I do not wish to be a lawyer,” Wang instructed Enterprise Insider in a video name.
Searching for a extra business-related profession, Wang picked up consulting and funding banking books. He additionally created a resume that ended up getting him interviews at Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, and Google.
At Google, Wang says he went by means of seven rounds of interviews.
“Once I did the Google Hangout interview, I dressed up. I used to be like: I’m not going to go away any room for error,” he mentioned. “I even had my slacks and my gown sneakers on, simply in case they instructed me to tilt the digital camera down.”
It paid off: In 2013, Wang acquired a proposal to work in Google’s coverage division.
Wang’s resume on the time adopted a format well-known amongst faculty college students and people in coverage: It was one web page lengthy, and written in Occasions New Roman. It started with a bit on training and a bigger one devoted to his two work experiences.
Here is the resume that acquired him the job:
Resume errors Wang made
However now, roughly 10 years on, Wang reexamined that resume — and he says he’d do some issues in another way.
“Wanting again, I believe there must be a narrative to my resume. Proper now, I am simply itemizing the place I went to high school, what my experiences have been with out actually conveying what is the story that I wish to inform,” Wang mentioned about his 2013 resume.
Here is what he would change:
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Declutter: “Once I take a look at this, my eyes form of damage. There’s a number of textual content and its all very packed collectively. I may use a extra clear font that’s straightforward to learn, like Arial, Open Sans or Lato,” Wang mentioned.
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Decrease the work for the recruiter: “I’d have an introduction blurb about myself so the recruiter or interviewer doesn’t must learn by means of every part,” Wang mentioned. “I’d summarize my expertise into two to a few sentences on the very starting, so it is virtually like a mini cowl letter.”
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Lead with the brand new: “Right now, I had already been working two years, which implies I may transfer training beneath and lead with expertise.”
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Present your accomplishments, not your work: Wang mentioned he’d focus much less on itemizing duties, and extra on explaining how his duties turned accomplishments. “For instance, for litigation paralegal, I’d have a brief blurb saying, ‘Managed and owned authorized workflow for prime profile household legislation instances from discovery to trial,'” he mentioned.
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Tailor for what you need: “Choose your battles — not each single work expertise goes to be equal,” Wang mentioned. As a result of he was making use of for a coverage position at Google, he says he ought to have emphasised his coverage expertise over his time in neighborhood service.
It is not all unfavourable, although. “One factor I respect about this resume is that although there’s a number of info, I over communicated reasonably than under-communicated,” he mentioned.
Wang labored at Google’s coverage division and later as a product advertising supervisor. He left the corporate in 2017 and now runs his personal enterprise consulting AI and crypto startups.
BI verified Wang’s employment historical past.
