Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist blog is definitely worth a read. In this post, she recommends that you aim high when applying for jobs and tailor your resume to sound like you’re more qualified for a job than you are. She makes the excellent point that applying for things you already know how to do means you stay within a really limited job scope. So here are some of those words of wisdom:
One reason my resume is so varied is that I have always done two things at once so that I can switch up as soon as my learning curve flattens. For example, when I was playing professional beach volleyball, I was also writing stories every day. So I was ready to go to grad school as soon as I got tired of volleyball.
In grad school, I didn’t have to write–the writing was done. This was when the Internet was emerging as a mainstream tool, and I realized that my writing was perfect for the Internet. So I took all my printed out pages to the computer science lab and asked one of the professors to teach me HTML.
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