By: Kathryn Sollmann, Co-founder Women@Work Network
Most women know what to wear to give the right impression in the right situation. Yet, even many women who spend thousands of dollars on each season’s fashions present themselves as paupers on resume paper.
At Women@Work we call it the “under-dressed” resume — resumes that don’t look right, sound right or project the image women so carefully craft in every other aspect of their lives.You can’t throw a resume together in a couple of hours. If you do, it’s obvious to an employer. You can run to the supermarket in your sweatpants with wet hair and no make-up, and hope that you don’t see anyone you know, but when you send out an under-dressed resume, there’s nowhere to hide.
When employers get an under-dressed resume, they wonder if you’ll take the time to make the right impression in a client meeting, if your reports will be thorough, or if you’ll embarrass the team with a presentation that you prepared in the 11th hour.
How do you know if your resume is as outdated as last season’s shoes, or as unimpressive as an old flannel shirt? Read the top 7 signs that your resume is not on the Best Dressed Resume List, and then spend more time with one or two of the most important sheets of paper in any professional woman’s life.