You are an engineering student, and you’ve written a first draft of your resume. You’ve gotten a good amount of the way into the process: you found Microsoft Word, picked a template you thought looked okay, and saved. Critically, you have yet to actually apply to any jobs with it. You also have yet to show it to someone.

This exact moment is where you go horribly, irrevocably wrong.

Yes, definitely, I’ll give you feedback on your resume. No, you don’t need to actually send it to me. I always end up saying the same thing to everyone anyway so that will simply not be necessary.

Hmm… Ok. Nice color. You went two columns? Excellent. I definitely liked that part where you mentioned Shakespeare’s Othello. You could probably apply to jobs with this and get a call back eventually.

But what if you don’t want eventually? What if you want it now?

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