Top Ten: Updating Your Resume

Get ready to read these same three words throughout this post: you never know!!

Whether you're employed or not, updating your resume is a critical practice that should be observed regularly. Why? Here are my top ten reasons (feel free to agree or disagree, but comment either way):

10: Because you never know what can happen with your current job situation. It's best to stay up to date with everything you've done in your career.

9: Boost your job satisfaction - Once you start realizing how many different tasks you're responsible for, it can give you a lot of confidence in your abilities.

8: Recognize your worth - Continuing from the previous point, you may then realize that you deserve a raise, or can take on more duties, and being able to prove your worth.

7: Much easier to gradually update - A lot of people don't touch their resumes until they're looking for work. Try remembering every task you did at a job you just spent 3 years working at!

6: You never know - The job market is so volatile, there's really no harm in being a little prepared.

5: Better employment - By making your resume public on a site like workopolis.com, a recruiter may find your resume appealing and rescue you from your boring, mundane job.

4: Update can be minor - Even if your resume is up to date, by changing one word, all the recruiter sees is that your resume has been updated recently. You are more likely to get a call, the more recent your update is.

3: Reminding tool - The more you read over your resume, the more engrained the information is in your head. Often times we forget to mention a duty we performed at a previous position that may be extremely important to a current job we are interviewing for.

2: Develops your communication skills - By constantly looking for better action verbs or editing statements more concisely, you are also improving your own written communications skills.

1: YOU NEVER KNOW!!! If your whole department was laid off tomorrow, who'd be the first individual sending out resumes because it was always kept up to date?

Let me know what you think......I never know, maybe I've missed some relevant points!