This Perfect Resume Bullet Point Will Get You Hired Every Time #AskCheeky

Every bullet point should start with a transferable skill because this is what employers care about the most. Employers, recruiters, hiring managers, that first touchpoint when you want to get a job, the people you're going to come in contact with first, they know you have the technical skills that you need, or that you can learn them as a PhD. Most of these people, the hiring managers and recruiters, don't have a PhD. They're looking to make sure that you have the soft skills that you need, the skills they learned when they were getting their degree in human resources. They want to know that you have leadership skills, communication skills, project management skills, people management skill, business acumen, cross-functional collaboration skills, the non-technical skills. Make it specific and relevant to the job you're applying to.

At the end of the bullet point you have to have a quantified result. “Quantified”, as in showing a numerical value. Five cross-functional relationships resulting in three publications and $250,000 in lab grant funding. You have a lot of results. A collaboration is a result. Publications are results. Presentations are results. A methodology or protocol you've optimized or innovated is a result. Methodologies in industry are systems. Systems allow businesses to scale.

Finally, in your bullet point, bring these two things together with your technical expertise.

That's how you craft a perfect bullet point. Make it future-facing, which means you don't talk about the past only, you talk about the past in a way that's showcasing what you can accomplish in the future for that position. This means you use words like "relevant", or "similar", again crafting what you've done and facing it to the future, what they're hoping you can achieve once they hire you.

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