After completing my resume, I have been able to kind of readjust my perspective on the. Overall, I have mixed feelings about resumes and their function in the professional world. The heightened issue I have with them is the often bias that is found in looking at them. If we look at the article we read last week, hiring committees can look at a resume for a mere 6 seconds before deciding whether or not they will continue to look further in their profile. This, for me, is not at all fair or follows anyones plans for diversity in the workplace. You can’t generalize all companies and say that they do this, but it is thought provoking on what companies may do this.
Outside of this fact, I do also think resumes do serve an important purpose in summarizing the highlighted aspects of an individuals. It’s like the trailer to a possibly good movie. It serves more purpose than I originally thought, which was that everyone needed one but they weren’t too significant. In actuality it is very significant to have the best resume possible, especially considering my previous paragraph’s point. A resume can summarize all the things you have accomplished and skills you’ve harnessed over a lifetime. This transcends farther than what you can do in a cover letter. It also acts as a conversation starter in most interviewers, providing committees with what qualities could be expanded on more. I think resumes are beneficial to getting in the professional world, but I wonder if there is any way to fix the biases they often derive.
